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Greylag Goose

Anser anser

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Field Notes

Habitat:

This species is found throughout the Old World, apparently breeding where suitable localities are to be found in many European countries, although it no longer breeds in southwestern Europe. Eastwards it extends across Asia to China. In North America there are both feral domestic geese, which are similar to greylags, and occasional vagrants.

Notes:

I love the sound of geese flying over. Their migration is the prelude to a changing season.

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Comments (3)

Your are right man...both feeds human hunger physical and mental..!!
@AshishNimkar That's beautiful, thank God for having nature,... and poets!
We compare it as chain of pearls floating in sky in Indian poetic literature.

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