Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.

See Anserinae and Anseriformes

Audubon

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Branta

The black geese of the genus Branta are waterfowl belonging to the true geese and swans subfamily Anserinae. Anserinae and Branta are Extant Miocene first appearances.

See Anserinae and Branta

Branta rhuax

Branta rhuax, the giant Hawaii goose, is an extinct goose endemic to the island of Hawaiokinai.

See Anserinae and Branta rhuax

California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

See Anserinae and California

Cape Barren goose

The Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae), sometimes also known as the pig goose, is a species of goose endemic to southern Australia.

See Anserinae and Cape Barren goose

Coscoroba swan

The coscoroba swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) is a species of waterfowl in the subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae.

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Domestic goose

A domestic goose is a goose that humans have domesticated and kept for their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals.

See Anserinae and Domestic goose

Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Goose

A goose (geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.

See Anserinae and Goose

Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

See Anserinae and Japan

List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species

Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded history, specifically before they could be studied alive by ornithological science.

See Anserinae and List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species

Megalodytes

Megalodytes is an extinct genus of waterfowl.

See Anserinae and Megalodytes

Middle Miocene

The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch made up of two stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages.

See Anserinae and Middle Miocene

Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

See Anserinae and Miocene

Moa-nalo

The moa-nalo are a group of extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on the larger Hawaiian Islands, except Hawaiokinai itself, in the Pacific.

See Anserinae and Moa-nalo

New Zealand goose

The New Zealand goose is a bird of the extinct genus Cnemiornis of the family Anatidae, subfamily Anserinae.

See Anserinae and New Zealand goose

Nicholas Aylward Vigors

Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician.

See Anserinae and Nicholas Aylward Vigors

North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

See Anserinae and Subfamily

Swan

Swans are birds of the genus Cygnus within the family Anatidae. Anserinae and Swan are Extant Miocene first appearances.

See Anserinae and Swan

Systematics

Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time.

See Anserinae and Systematics

Tadorna

The shelducks, most species of which are found in the genus Tadorna (except for the Radjah shelduck, which is now found in its own monotypic genus Radjah), are a group of large birds in the Tadorninae subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.

See Anserinae and Tadorna

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anserinae

Anserinae, the Glossary

Table of Contents

Afrocygnus

Anatidae

Anatinae

Annakacygna

Anser (bird)

Anseriformes