Chicken Goose
21 February, 2011
Chicken Goose ( Cereopsis novaehollandiae) - Bird species in the subfamily of the family duck goose, living in South Australia And on Tasmania. Chicken geese live on land, rapidly running, Geese swim poorly, and fly hard and reluctantly. Fed goose grass.
Chicken Goose, This is a fairly large bird reaches a length of 75 до 100 cm, with the weight of 3 доbeforeg.
Chicken little goose head, neck is short, high with a curved beak, black tip, resembling chicken yellow. In chicken goose long red webbed paws with small. Colouring goose gray with light spots.
Before pairing gander performs a beautiful dance of courtship,during the breeding season, it behaves very aggressively, guarding the female and chicks, and only during the breeding geese chicks are associated with water, at other times avoiding it. in the nest, lined with feathers and down, deposited 6.4 eggs, incubating eggs lasts about 5 weeks.
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