Egyptian goose (05659)🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Egyptian Goose

Alopochen aegyptiaca (Linnaeus, 1766)

Mısır kazı (Alopochen aegyptiacus), ördekgiller (Anatidae) familyasına ait bir kaz türü. Alopochen cinsine ait tek türdür. mtDNA sitokrom b DNA sekans çalışmaları Tadorna cinsiyle akraba olduklarını ileri sürmektedir. (Sraml et al. 1996). Yaklaşık 63–73 cm boyunda, genellikle Afrika'da yerleşim gösteren kuşlardır. Çöller ve sık ormanlar hariç her yerde yaşarlar. En çok Nil Vadisi ve Sahra Çölü'nün güneyinde bulunurlar. Ayrıca 18. Yüzyıl'dan itibaren Büyük Britanya'dan Kıbrıs'a kadar olan her yerde yabancı popülasyonları vardır. Genelde parklarda ve göllerde görülürler. Bu büyük kuşlar; genelde ağaçlara ve binalara yuvalarlar. İyi yüzerler ve iri bir kaz gibi uçarlar. Adları İngilizceden çevirilrek verilmiştir.

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vs you
≈ 1/33rd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.87 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Egyptian Goose

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.87 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.9 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.36 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
26 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
29 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 7
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Egyptian Goose yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages
Gęsiówka egipska (pl), יאורית מצרית (he), Ouette d'Égypte (fr), Alopochen aegyptiacus (es), nílusi lúd (hu), Alopochen aegyptiaca (it) … and 25 more languages

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