Pink-footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchus
The Pink-footed Goose is a medium-sized goose with a dark head and neck, a pink bill and pink feet and legs.
Around estuaries and large bodies of water.
They arrive in the UK in October and depart in April
This species does not breed in the UK, but large numbers of birds spend the winter here, arriving from their breeding grounds in Spitsbergen, Iceland and Greenland. Numbers in England are on the increase. Feeds on grain, winter cereals, potatoes and grass.
Widespread in much of Britain.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Rod Baker
Syston
03 March 2016
David Nicholls
Rutland Water, Egleton NR
26 March 2010
egaten
Rutland Water
20 March 2014
steven lewis
Market Overton
02 November 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Pink-footed Goose
- Species group:
- Birds
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Anseriformes
- Family:
- Anatidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 51
- First record:
- 26/03/2010 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 05/12/2022 (Messenger, Nigel)
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