Greylag Goose

Anser anser · Bird

A big grey goose that breeds in marshes, fens and bogs and on lake islands, and winters in flocks of up to thousands on salt marshes, estuaries, steppe and pasture near water. Families migrate together, though many European birds now stay near their breeding grounds. It is the wild ancestor of the farmyard goose and gave people meat, fat, eggs, down for bedding and quills for writing.

Danger

Harmless

How it is met

In flocks, by day

Size

Small

In winter

Leaves for winter

Where it lives

Grassland, Marsh, Bog, River, Stream, Lake, Estuary

Gives

Greylag Goose Meat, Greylag Goose Egg, Greylag Goose Feathers

Sources

• Greylag goose. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
• Oie cendrée. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
• Saul Vargas, Anser anser (greylag goose). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2002.

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