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Emperor Goose
[Anser canagica]
[Length 26 in. Wingspan 47 in.]
Emperor Geese are handsome birds with mottled steel gray bodies, white head and hind neck, and black fore neck, throat, and chin.
No other goose has this distinctive black-and-white head pattern.
Emperor Geese breed along coastal areas of Siberia and western Alaska in the northern Bering Sea.
They winter exclusively along the southern Alaskan coast and islands from Kodiak Island out along the entire Aleutian Island chain (although each year a few stray south along the west coasts of Canada and the US as far south as central California!).
This Emperor Goose was photographed overhead in flight at the village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, USA.
Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film.
(Date: May 1989)
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