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The Cape Barren Goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, is a large goose resident in southern Australia. Cereopsis means wax-like and refers to the waxy yellow-green beak cover. Image File history File links Description: Cape Barren Goose at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Gloucestershire, England Photograph: Arpingstone first upload in en wikipedia 09:32, 15 January 2004 by Arpingstone Licence: File links The following pages link to this file: Cape Barren Goose ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascideiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with...
Orders Many - see section below. ...
Families Anhimidae Anseranatidae Anatidae The order Anseriformes contains about 150 species of bird in three families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie Goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. ...
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Thalassorninae Anserinae Stictonettinae Plectropterinae Tadorninae Anatinae Merginae Oxyurinae Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. ...
This article is about John Latham the ornithologist. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ...
This article is about John Latham the ornithologist. ...
1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Other uses: Goose (disambiguation) Genera Anser Branta Chen Cereopsis Cnemiornis (extinct) †see also: Swan, Duck Anatidae Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. ...
A previous decline in numbers appears to have been reversed as birds in the east at least have adapted to feeding on agricultural land. The breeding areas are grassy islands off the Australian coast, where this species nests on the ground in colonies.
These are bulky geese and their almost uniformly grey plumage, bearing rounded black spots, is unique. The tail and flight feathers are blackish and the legs are orange. The short, decurved black bill and green cere gives it a very peculiar expression. A cere is a fleshy, often waxy area above a birds beak. ...
The Cape Barren Goose is 75-100 cm long, and has a 450-490 cm wingspan; males are somewhat larger than females. The male weighs on average 5.29 kg and the female 3.77 kg.
This bird feeds by grazing and rarely swims. It is gregarious outside the breeding season, when it wanders more widely, forming small flocks. Orders Many - see section below. ...
It bears captivity well, breeding in confinement. Some of this species' peculiarities were believed to have been still more exaggerated in an extinct bird that was described from bones and referred to as the New Zealand Cape Barren Goose, Cereopsis novaezeelandiae. Among the first portions of this bird that were found were the tibia, which presented an extraordinary development of the patella. However, C. novaezealandiae has been resolved to be a specimen of C. novaehollandiae, with the peculiar bones that were once referred to it belonging to an extinct New Zealand Goose (Cnemiornis).
References
- Wildfowl by Madge and Burn, ISBN 0-7470-2201-1
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