About white-fronted geese
Photos: Kaarel Kaisel and Arne Ader
Nature sound: Veljo Runnel
Translation: Liis
Greater white-fronted geese. Matsalu
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Their calls in flight are high-pitched shrill cries.
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The greater white-fronted geese have a white blaze on the base of the beak that catches the eye and distinguishes them from other geese: they sometimes forage and fly in mixed flocks with other geese.
Lesser white-fronted geese are described here but ornithologists see less than a hundred individuals of them during the spring migration.
Characteristics – the white blaze is large and goes from the base of the beak to the forehead, the beak is pink as in greylag geese and the feet are orange as those of bean geese. In flight the dark spots on the belly of adult birds are noticeable (see the image below).
Compared to other geese the calls of white-fronted geese are melodic and more high-pitched - clearly distinguishable to a listener.
Read about greylag geese and bean geese:
Migrants stopping over inland are in the range of a couple of ten thousand. The greater white-fronted geese leave last of all passing migrant geese – the last flocks in May.
Greater white-fronted geese
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