Taiga Bean Goose

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When to see the Taiga Bean Goose

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Taiga Bean Goose

The map shades 35 countries with regular records, and 12 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, United States, Belgium, India, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Ireland, Iceland, Morocco, Italy, Moldova.

About the Taiga Bean Goose

The taiga bean goose is a species of goose that breeds in northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory and winters further south in Europe and Asia. This and the tundra bean goose were recognised as separate species by the International Ornithologists' Union and the American Ornithological Society from 2007, but are still considered a single species by some other authorities, notably BirdLife International and the IUCN. The taiga and tundra bean goose diverged about 2.5 million years ago and established secondary contact c. 60,000 years ago, resulting in extensive gene flow.

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Easily confused with

Tundra Bean GooseAnser serrirostrisThe length ranges from 68 to 90 cm (27–35 in), wingspan from 140 to 174 cm (55–69 in) and weight from 1.7–4 kg (3.7–8.8 lb). Bar-headed GooseAnser indicusThe bird is pale grey and is easily distinguished from any of the other grey geese of the genus Anser by the black bars on its otherwise white head. Emperor GooseAnser canagicusThe emperor goose has a stout blue-gray body, with spots of black and white, which cause it to have a "scaled appearance".

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