Mostly Canada geese with the odd greylag amongst their number. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Geese] Reference
Research with the herring gull and the greylag goose uncovered much the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [From 'The End of Overeating'] Reference
Moscow newspaper, that same day you brought down two fine greylag geese at a long range with a single shot. From Wordnik.com. [Mikhail Sholokhov - Banquet Speech] Reference
Today's domestic geese are descended from two species: the greylag (Anser anser) and the swan goose (Anser cygnoides). From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
Wintering waterfowl and greylag goose numbers have decreased from 200,000 to 50,000 and 20,000 to less than 1,000 respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia] Reference
Eastward, coastal mudflats and salt marshes seethed with wintering birds, greylag geese competing for the lush grass with forty or so horses. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Important wintering species include mute swan Cygnus olor, white-fronted and greylag goose Anser albifrons and A. anser and white-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla. From Wordnik.com. [Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria] Reference
Further inland the marshland is dominated by cordgrass Scirpus maritimus and S. litoralis which are the main food of greylag geese, require annual inundation and are not salt-tolerant; also Juncus subulateus. From Wordnik.com. [Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia] Reference
If you can make out the numerous pale dots on the water around the bridge click on the image to enlarge, they're greylag geese and black-headed gulls, both of which congregate in large numbers on the reservoir in winter. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Of the 23 populations, five populations of greylag goose (Anser anser anser and A.a. rubirostris) do not nest in the Arctic; neither do the two populations of Canada goose (Branta canadensis) which are not native to the region. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference
High records for common pochard and greylag goose Anser anser (3,200: 18,000 in the 1970s) show that Ichkeul is their most important wintering site in northwest Africa. 600 (4% of known world population) of the threatened white-headed duck Oxyura leucocephala, were seen in 1977. From Wordnik.com. [Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia] Reference
It is also essential winter habitat for up to 500,000 overwintering ducks and waterbirds such as teal Anas crecca (160,000), wigeon Anas Penelope (100,000), greylag goose Anser anser (100,000), most of Spain's herons, white stork Ciconia ciconia, stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus and slender-billed gull Larus genei. From Wordnik.com. [Doñana National Park, Spain] Reference
With increasing temperatures, in concert with other long-term changes, such as wetland eutrophication, populations of some waterfowl species, for example whistling swans (Cygnus columbianus), eider ducks (Somateria spp.), and greylag geese (Anser anser), are expected to increase in size and to expand their distribution. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Fennoscandian North] Reference
The greylag series of big oils on canvas is startling. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Several mallards, a few swans, greylag geese and canada geese. From Wordnik.com. [Crafty Green Poet] Reference
This is an adaptation of the greylag code to run the Yates 'lab's SEQUEST binary. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Six geese a-laying is likely to refer to the greylag goose of Europe, an ancestor to many of our domestic goose breeds. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Although it may not be useful in itself, it contains a number of improvements that should be folded into the main greylag code. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Skeins of thousands of greylag geese have been blamed for causing severe damage to Rick Tomlinson takes a duck from his dog, Maggie, at Cheyenne Bottoms. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Tourism depends on more prisons] Reference
She painted the greylag geese in Tarty, Aberdeenshire, and the views from her house on the pier in Stromness, juxtaposing fishing boats and the plants on her windowsill. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Descendants of the wild greylag goose. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
5000 greylag geese, 30,000 mallard, 10,000 pintail and 30,000 wigeon, so it is clearly very important '. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest From www.politics.co.uk] Reference
Currently, hunting is only permitted on a small number of marine birds (Svalbard northern fulmar, thick-billed murre, black guillemot, and glaucous gull; mainland – great cormorant and shag, greylag goose, oldsquaw and red-breasted merganser, black-headed gull, common gull, herring gull, great black-backed gull, and black-legged kittiwake) during set seasons. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
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