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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🐦Swan Goose

Anser cygnoides (Linnaeus, 1758)

The swan goose is a large goose with a natural breeding range in inland Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East. It is migratory and winters mainly in central and eastern China. Vagrant birds are encountered in Japan and Korea, and more rarely in Kazakhstan, Laos, coastal Siberia, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan.

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Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.33 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Swan Goose

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Body mass
3.33 kgaverage3.15–3.5 kg · range across sexes
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.

By sex

  • Female3.15 kgWikidataQ31354
  • Male3.5 kgWikidataQ31354
Volume l
3.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusAnser
  7. ›speciesAnser cygnoides
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  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  3. subfamilyAnserinae
  4. genusAnser
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
  13. subfamilyAnserinae
  14. genusAnser
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In other languages
鸿雁 (zh), Oie cygnoïde (fr), 개리 (ko), Anser cygnoides (es), kínai hattyúlúd (hu), Anser cygnoides (it) … and 25 more languages
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