| NOUN | a pink-footed goose | pink-footed geese |
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- Gladhouse Reservoir is an important roost site for wintering populations of pink-footed goose and has a large population of greylag goose.
- The pink-footed goose is one of the species to which the "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies.
- Small game in Iceland consists mostly of seabirds (puffin, cormorant and great black-backed gull) and waterfowl (mallard, greylag goose and pink-footed goose).
- More than 300 bird species have been recorded in the area, Other rare birds spotted here include the purple heron, the pink-footed goose, the European honey buzzard and the melodious warbler.
- It was named after the geese, for the Barnacle goose and the Pink-footed goose are common in the region.
- The shallow water of the Vik Inlet is protected as the Vik Inlet Nature Reserve, particularly because of its importance as an area for the pink-footed goose during spring.
- Since the end of the 1990s, the pink-footed goose has grazed in parts of Vikeid during the spring migration period.
- The closely related pink-footed goose ("A. brachyrhynchus") has the bill short, bright pink in the middle, and the feet also pink, the upper wing-coverts being nearly of the same bluish-grey as in the greylag goose.
- The reserve is designated SSSI, SPA and Ramsar because of the large numbers of geese overwintering there, especially the Icelandic/Greenland pink-footed goose ("Anser brachyrhynchus") and the Icelandic greylag goose ("Anser anser").
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