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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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The Lesser White-fronted Goose is not only rare in Serbia, but also overlooked among numerous Greater White-fronted Geese. They do breed in the Balkans, in Montenegro and Greece where I observed them, as well as in Bulgaria and Romania. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens.

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