#0742 · 🐦 birds

Pink-footed Goose

🇳🇱 Kleine Rietgans ·Anser brachyrhynchus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Michael Hochstetler · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © chris roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Carrie Olson · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Magnus Lindberg - Close to nature · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Jim McNair · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © alexander_abuladze · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The pink-footed goose ( Anser brachyrhynchus ) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. The name is often abbreviated in colloquial usage to "pinkfoot" (plural "pinkfeet"). Anser is the Latin for "goose", and brachyrhynchus comes from the Greek brakhus "short" and rhunkhos "bill".

base stats

NL sightings 69iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,962iNaturalist observations
weight 2.9 kgadult, up to
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).