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Metadata
Title: Emperor Goose and Chicks on the Yukon Delta NWR
Alternative Title: Chen canagica
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Source: EGoose-01
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor: ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTOR-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: Refuges, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Yukon River Delta, Species, Birds, Waterfowl
Date Issued: July 08 2002
The Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) is a species of goose. It breeds around the Bering Sea, mostly in Alaska, USA, but also in Kamchatka, Russia. It is migratory, wintering mainly in the Aleutian Islands. Some authorities places this species in the more traditional grey goose genus Anser. |
