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Upland Goose

This is a female of the Falkland (C. p. leucoptera) race. It is larger and darker than mainland females and has broader, better defined ventral barring.
- jmorlan
- Media item
- Apr 10, 2023
- chloephaga picta falkland islands upland goose
- Comments: 2
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose

These are not really geese, but "sheldgeese" more closely related to shelducks than to true geese. This is a male. Females have a brown head. Two subspecies are recognized. This is the larger race "C. p. leucoptera" where the males are never barred on the chest. It is confined to the Falkland...
- jmorlan
- Media item
- Apr 8, 2023
- chloephaga picta falkland islands upland goose
- Comments: 1
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose (m)
- peterday
- Media item
- Apr 12, 2020
- chloephaga picta upland goose
- Comments: 13
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose (f)
- peterday
- Media item
- Apr 11, 2020
- chloephaga picta upland goose
- Comments: 14
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta)

Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta) at Laguna Nimez Reserve in El Calafate, Argentina
- Dave Clark
- Media item
- Nov 2, 2012
- argentina chloephaga picta el calafate laguna nimez reserve magellan goose upland goose
- Comments: 0
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta) family

Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta) family near Punta Arenas, Chile
- Dave Clark
- Media item
- Oct 28, 2012
- chile chloephaga picta magellan goose punta arenas upland goose
- Comments: 0
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose

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- klaas456
- Media item
- Oct 12, 2009
- upland goose
- Comments: 6
- Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
Upland Geese

Taken near the gentoo penguin colony on Bertha's Beach, in the Falkland Islands. The male is the white one. Upland geese are very common in the FI, and apparently they make very tasty foie gras...
- StrikingSlug
- Media item
- Jan 18, 2009
- upland goose
- Comments: 6
- Category: New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Upland Goose

Male
- Rodrigo Reyes
- Media item
- Sep 8, 2007
- upland goose
- Comments: 9
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Geese in the Falklands

These Upland Geese were pretty used to being watched and photographed.
- AlanR
- Media item
- Feb 5, 2007
- upland goose
- Comments: 0
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose

Juveniles: males and females.
- Rodrigo Reyes
- Media item
- Jun 7, 2006
- upland goose
- Comments: 1
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose

male (barred)
- Rodrigo Reyes
- Media item
- Feb 9, 2006
- upland goose
- Comments: 1
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland geese

Upland goose family on the Falkland Islands. Male white and black, female brown. They are territorial, just spreading themselves evenly all over the moorland. They are eaten by the islanders. I found the taste rather bland, slightly earthy and definitely not salty.
- Wickham
- Media item
- Aug 9, 2005
- upland goose
- Comments: 1
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
Upland Goose

The Upland Goose is ussually found in Patagonia. In winter they migrate north to the Buenos Aires Pronvince.
- Fritz73
- Media item
- Oct 16, 2004
- upland goose
- Comments: 2
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico

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