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| Bean goose |
The bean goose (Anser fabalis) breed in northern Eurasia and is a migratory bird that winters in scattered locations in Europe, Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Korea and Japan. It has been observed in Canada, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali and the Azores and Iceland.
It breeds close to marshes and ponds in the taiga of the northern conifer zone and the tundra.
In summer they eat horsetail, cotton grass, crowberry, sedges, grasses and herbs. In winter, their diet consists mostly of grasses, corn and clover.
