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Index Magpie goose

The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae.[1]

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  1. 73 relations: Anatalavis, Anatidae, Animal Diversity Web, Anseranatidae, Anseriformes, Anserinae, Arnhem Land, Australia, Billy, Allier, Bool Lagoon Game Reserve, Chattian, Clutch (eggs), Coorong National Park, Créchy, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, CSIRO, Danian, Duck, East Point, Northern Territory, Eleocharis, Eoanseranas, Eocene, Family (biology), Floodplain, Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, Fossil, France, Geobios, Gondwana, Goose, Habitat destruction, Helm Identification Guides, Hornerstown Formation, John Latham (ornithologist), Kunwinjku people, Late Cretaceous, Living fossil, London Clay, Magpie, Magpie duck, Mimi (folklore), Monotypic taxon, Moulting, Muséum de Toulouse, National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Near-threatened species, New Guinea, Order (biology), Ornithology (journal), Oryza rufipogon, ... Expand index (23 more) »

  2. Anseranatidae
  3. Birds described in 1798
  4. Birds of Indonesia

Anatalavis

Anatalavis is genus of prehistoric birds related to ducks and geese, perhaps to the magpie-goose (Anseranas semipalmata) in particular. Magpie goose and Anatalavis are Anseranatidae.

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Anatidae

The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.

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Animal Diversity Web

The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a non-profit group that hosts an online database site that collects natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on species of animals.

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Anseranatidae

Anseranatidae, the magpie-geese, is a biological family of waterbirds.

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Anseriformes

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.

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Anserinae

The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Billy, Allier

Billy (Bilhi) is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

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Bool Lagoon Game Reserve

Bool Lagoon Game Reserve is a protected area located in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, about south of the town of Naracoorte.

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Chattian

The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.

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Clutch (eggs)

A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.

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Coorong National Park

Coorong National Park is a protected area located in South Australia about south-east of Adelaide, that predominantly covers a coastal lagoon ecosystem officially known as The Coorong and the Younghusband Peninsula on the Coorong's southern side.

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Créchy

Créchy (Creschic) is a commune in the Allier department in central France.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.

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Danian

The Danian is the oldest age or lowest stage of the Paleocene Epoch or Series, of the Paleogene Period or System, and of the Cenozoic Era or Erathem.

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Duck

Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae.

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East Point, Northern Territory

East Point is an inner northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia.

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Eleocharis

Eleocharis is a virtually cosmopolitan genus of 250 or more species of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.

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Eoanseranas

Eoanseranas handae, also sometimes referred to as Hand's dawn magpie goose, is an extinct genus and species of bird. Magpie goose and Eoanseranas are Anseranatidae.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988

The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, also known as the FFG Act, is an act of the Victorian Parliament designed to protect species, genetic material and habitats, to prevent extinction and allow maximum genetic diversity within the Australian state of Victoria for perpetuity.

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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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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Geobios

Geobios is an academic journal published bimonthly by the publishing house Elsevier.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Goose

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

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Helm Identification Guides

The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.

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Hornerstown Formation

The Hornerstown Formation is a Paleogene or latest Mesozoic geologic formation in New Jersey.

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John Latham (ornithologist)

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.

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Kunwinjku people

The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Aboriginal people, one of several groups within the Bininj people, who live around West Arnhem Land to the east of Darwin, Northern Territory.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Living fossil

A living fossil is an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record.

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London Clay

The London Clay Formation is a marine geological formation of Ypresian (early Eocene Epoch, c. 54-50 million years ago) age which crops out in the southeast of England.

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Magpie

Magpies are birds of various species of the family Corvidae.

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Magpie duck

The Magpie is a British breed of domestic duck.

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Mimi (folklore)

Mimis (or Mimih spirits) are fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land in the folklore of the Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Muséum de Toulouse

The Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France.

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National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife

The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife was founded as a project of the Australian Museum on 3 June 1969 (as the National Photographic Index of Australian Birds) to compile a comprehensive collection of photographs of Australian bird species.

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Near-threatened species

A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Ornithology (journal)

Ornithology, formerly The Auk and The Auk: Ornithological Advances, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).

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Oryza rufipogon

Oryza rufipogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae.

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Overexploitation

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Ramingining, Northern Territory

Ramingining is an Aboriginal Australian community of mainly Yolngu people in the Northern Territory, Australia, east of Darwin.

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René Lesson

René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.

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Rupelian

The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.

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Screamer

The screamers are three South American bird species placed in family Anhimidae.

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Sea level rise

Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.

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Serendip Sanctuary

Serendip Sanctuary is a protected area in Victoria, Australia, near the You Yangs and the town of Lara, some north of Geelong and south-west of Melbourne.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Species reintroduction

Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.

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Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland.

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Swan

Swans are birds of the genus Cygnus within the family Anatidae.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Vegavis

Vegavis is a genus of extinct bird that lived in Antarctica during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Wadawurrung language

Wadawurrung, also rendered as Wathawurrung, Wathaurong or Wada wurrung, and formerly sometimes Barrabool, is the Aboriginal Australian language spoken by the Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria.

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Walton-on-the-Naze

Walton-on-the-Naze is a seaside town on the North Sea coast.

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Water bird

A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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Yolŋu languages

Yolŋu Matha, meaning the 'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.

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Ypresian

In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.

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See also

Anseranatidae

Birds described in 1798

Birds of Indonesia

References

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

Also known as Anas semipalmata, Anseranas, Anseranas semipalmata, Anseranatinae, Anseranus, Anserianas, Anserianus, Magpie Geese, Magpie-geese, Magpie-goose.

, Overexploitation, Paleogene, Predation, Ramingining, Northern Territory, René Lesson, Rupelian, Screamer, Sea level rise, Serendip Sanctuary, South Australia, Species, Species reintroduction, Swamp, Swan, Taxon, Vegavis, Victoria (state), Wadawurrung language, Walton-on-the-Naze, Water bird, Wetland, Yolŋu languages, Ypresian.