White-Fronted Goose

Description: Smaller than graylag and bean geese. Stretched across their bellies and lower chests, the adult species have oblong black spots, which increase with age. By the first spring, the forehead becomes white, and distinctive black streaks on the belly appear. The bird is 62-78 cm long.

Habitat: A common bird, when transiting mainly keeps to lake systems and large rivers, where they stop to rest and feed, choosing open meadows, islands or vast shallows, more or less overgrown with grass.

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