Animals: Birds - Aves - Goose - Gansos - Part 1 - Data and y Links in English y Castellano
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Canada Goose Photo by Chuck Szmurlo
Barnacle goose duke
When lived in the field, I had geese, they are lovely boys.
Elegants, his forma of walk makes me smile, smug as great lords, friends of the house but with some distance, it is lovely to see them in the rainy days, pecking at the grass where is waterlogged.
Now that I live in the city, really that strange to have them every day.
Cuando vivía en el campo, tenía gansos, son unos muchachos encantadores.
Elegantes, su forma de caminar me hace sonreír, con aire satisfecho como grandes señores, amigos de la casa, pero con cierta distancia, es hermoso verlos en los días lluviosos, picoteando en el césped donde está inundado.
Ahora que vivo en la ciudad , de verdad que extraño tenrlos todos los días.
RM
Elegants, his forma of walk makes me smile, smug as great lords, friends of the house but with some distance, it is lovely to see them in the rainy days, pecking at the grass where is waterlogged.
Now that I live in the city, really that strange to have them every day.
Cuando vivía en el campo, tenía gansos, son unos muchachos encantadores.
Elegantes, su forma de caminar me hace sonreír, con aire satisfecho como grandes señores, amigos de la casa, pero con cierta distancia, es hermoso verlos en los días lluviosos, picoteando en el césped donde está inundado.
Ahora que vivo en la ciudad , de verdad que extraño tenrlos todos los días.
RM
Snow Goose flock foraging on grass
The word goose (plural: geese) is the English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller.
This article deals with the true geese in the subfamily Anserinae, tribe Anserini.
A number of other waterbirds, mostly related to the shelducks, have "goose" as part of their name.
Etymology
The word Goose is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European root, *ghans-. In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, and gander, respectively), New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter and Old Norse gās. This term also gave Lithuanian žąsìs, Irish gé (swan, from Old Irish géiss), Latin anser, Greek chēn, Albanian gatë (heron), Sanskrit hamsá, Avestan zāō, Polish gęś, Russian гусь.
The term goose applies to the female in particular. The word gander is used for a male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; when geese fly in formation they are called a wedge or a skein (see also list of collective nouns for birds).
Geese are commonly described as silly, as in the proverb that "it is a silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon".[1]
True geese
The following are the living genera of true geese:
* Anser - Grey Geese, including the domesticated goose and the Swan Goose
* Chen - White Geese (often included in Anser)
* Branta - Black Geese, such as the Canada goose
The following two genera are only tentatively placed in the Anserinae ; they may belong to the shelducks or form a subfamily on their own:
* Cereopsis - Cape Barren Goose
* Cnemiornis - New Zealand Geese (prehistoric)
Either these or - more probably - the goose-like Coscoroba Swan is the closest living relative of the true geese.
Fossils of true geese are hard to assign to genus; all that can be said is that their fossil record, particularly in North America, is dense and comprehensively documents a lot of the different species of true geese that have been around since about 10 million years ago in the Miocene. The aptly named Anser atavus ("Great-great-great-grandfather goose") from some 12 million years ago had even more plesiomorphies in common with swans. In addition, there are some goose-like birds known from subfossil remains found on the Hawaiian Islands. See Anserinae for more.
Geese are monogamous, living in permanent pairs throughout the year; however, unlike most other permanently monogamous animals, they are territorial only during the short nesting season. Paired geese are more dominant and feed more, two factors that result in more young.[2]
Other birds called "geese"
There are a number of mainly southern hemisphere birds called "geese", most of which belong to the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. These are:
* Orinoco Goose, Neochen jubata
* Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus
* The South American sheldgeese, genus Chloephaga
* The prehistoric Madagascar Sheldgoose, Centrornis majori, the "Woodard"
The Blue-winged Goose, Cyanochen cyanopterus belongs either to these, or to lineage closer to ducks.
The Spur-winged Goose, Plectropterus gambensis, is most closely related to the shelducks, but distinct enough to warrant its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae.
The three species of small waterfowl in the genus Nettapus are named "pygmy geese", e.g. the Cotton Pygmy Goose (N. javanica). They seem to represent an ancient lineage like the Cape Barren Goose and the Spur-winged Goose.
A genus of prehistorically extinct seaducks, Chendytes, is sometimes called "diving-geese" due to their large size.
The unusual Magpie Goose is in a family of its own, the Anseranatidae.
The Northern Gannet, a seabird, is also known as the "Solan Goose" although it is a bird unrelated to the true geese, or any other Anseriformes for that matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose
Los anserinos (Anserinae) son una subfamilia de aves acuáticas de la familia Anatidae. Incluye los cisnes, los gansos y barnaclas.
Una de estas especies, el ánsar común, ha sido domesticado y se conoce como oca; se cría para aprovechar su carne y su hígado, este último materia prima del paté o foie gras.
Especies
* Género Anser - Ánsares o gansos
o Anser anser - Ánsar común - Europa templada y Asia.
o Anser albifrons - Ánsar careto - Ártico de Norteamérica, Europa y Asia; inverna al sur.
o Anser erythropus - Ánsar chico - Subártico Europa y Asia, inverna al sur.
o Anser fabalis - Ánsar campestre - Ártico y subártico de Europa y Asia, inverna al sur.
o Anser brachyrhynchus - Ánsar piquicorto - Ártico Océano Atlántico costas, inverna al suroeste de Europa.
o Anser indicus - Ánsar indio - Montañas templadas del centro de Asia, inverna al sur de India.
o Anser cygnoides - Ánsar cisnal - Zona templada este de Asia, inverna al sur.
* Género Chen - Gansos blancos (algunos los clasifican como subgénero de Anser)[1]
o Chen caerulescens - Ánsar nival - Ártico o subártico de Norteamérica, inverna al sur.
o Chen rossii - Ganso de Ross - Ártico de Norteamérica, inverna al sur.
o Chen canagica - Ganso emperador - Costas árticas del Océano Pacífico, inverna a corta distancia del sur.
* Género Branta - Barnaclas
o Branta leucopsis - Barnacla cariblanco - Ártico del Océano Atlántico costas, inverna al sudoeste de Europa.
o Branta canadensis - Barnacla canadiense - Ártico y zona templada de Norteamérica, inverna al sur o es residente. Introducido en Europa, sobre todo en el Reino Unido.
o Branta hutchinsii - Barnacla reidor - Ártico y templado de Norteamérica, inverna al sur o es residente. Habitualmente considerado como parte de Branta canadensis.
o Branta sandvicensis - Barnacla nené - Hawaii, residente.
o Branta hylobadistes † - Barnacla nené gigante - Maui, Hawaii. Extinto en época prehistórica.
o Branta bernicla - Barnacla carinegro.
o Branta ruficollis - Barnacla cuellirrojo - Ártico de Asia, inverna en el sudeste de Europa.
* Género Cereopsis
o Cereopsis novaehollandiae - Ganso ceniciento - Sudeste de Australia, residente o nómada. Distinto de los otros gansos que pertenecen a la subfamilia.
* Género Cnemiornis † - Gansos de Nueva Zelanda. Extintos en época prehistórica.
o Cnemiornis calcitrans † - Nueva Zelanda, Islas del Sur, extinguido en época prehistórica.
o Cnemiornis gracilis † - Nueva Zelanda, Islas del Norte, extinguido en época prehistórica.
Especies de cisnes
* Género Cygnus
o Cygnus columbianus - Cisne chico - Ártico Norte América, Europa y Asia, invernan en el sur.
+ Cygnus columbianus bewickii - Cisne de Bewick- Siberia, inverna en las cotas del Mar del Norte, Mar Caspio y Mar Amarillo y Japón.
o Cygnus cygnus - Cisne cantor - Subárctico Europa y Asia, inverna en el sur.
o Cygnus buccinator. Cisne trompetero - Subarctico América del Norte, inverna en el sur.
o Cygnus olor - Cisne vulgar - Europa templada y Asia, residente.
o Cygnus atratus - Cisne negro - Australia, residente o nómada.
o Cygnus sumnerensis † - Cisne negro de Nueva Zelanda - Posiblemente Islas Chatham, extinto en época prehistórica; también considerada subespecie de Cygnus atratus (Cygnus atratus sumnerensis). En Nueva Zelanda se introdujo posteriormente la forma australiana Cygnus atratus.
o Cygnus melancoryphus - Cisne cuellinegro - Sudeste de Sudamérica, inverna en el norte.
* Género Coscoroba
o Coscoroba coscoroba - Cisne coscoroba. Sur y centro de Sudamérica, inverna al norte.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anserinae
See also:
http://www.geese.cc/
http://www.goose.org/main.html
También vea:
http://mascotas.facilisimo.com/reportajes/aves/el-ganso-una-mascota-agradecida_186036.html
http://www.autosuficiencia.com.ar/shop/detallenot.asp?notid=159
http://www.elblogalternativo.com/2010/02/18/el-vuelo-de-los-gansos-y-sus-ensenanzas/
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Animals:
Birds - Aves
Goose - Gansos
Part 1
Data and y Links in English y Castellano
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