#0596 · 🐦 birds

Greater White-fronted Goose

🇳🇱 Kolgans ·Anser albifrons

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Miguel A Mejias, PhD. · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Michael Klotz · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jason L Miller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0
8. © John D Reynolds · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The greater white-fronted goose ( Anser albifrons ) is a species of goose related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose ( A. erythropus ). It is named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill, in fact albifrons comes from the Latin albus "white" and frons " forehead ". In Europe it has been known as simply " white-fronted goose "; in North America it is known as the greater white-fronted goose (or "greater whitefront"), and this name is...

base stats

NL sightings 952iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 40,054iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).