The mallard and the graylag goose are the ancestors of our domestic ducks and geese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

Heinroth, a German zoolo - gist and ethologist, read a paper in 1910 in which he described the behavior of incubator-hatched graylag goslings (“Beiträge zur Biologie, nahmentlich Ethologie und Psychologie der Anatiden,” Verh. 5 int. orn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Some examples are the graylag goose (Anser anser), white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons), Little bustard (Otis tetrax), glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), red-breasted goose (Branta ruficollis), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), Pelecanidae, buff-backed heron (Bubulcus ibis = Ardeola ibis), squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala), and Caspian snowcock (Tetraogallus caspius).    From Wordnik.com.  [Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests] Reference