magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) Anseranas semipalmata
English: A Magpie Goose at Edithvale Wetland, Melbourne, Australia.
Date 5 September 2010
Source Picasa Web Albums http://picasaweb.google.com/wampy1/EdithvaleWetlands#5513378666663951042
Author Wayne Butterworth http://picasaweb.google.com/wampy1
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anseranas_semipalmata_-Edithvale_Wetland,_Melbourne,_Australia-8.jpg
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative waterbird species of the Anseranatidae family. It is a resident breeder in northern Australia and a vagrant to southern New Guinea. The species was once also widespread in southern Australia, but disappeared from there largely due to the drainage of the wetlands where the birds once bred.
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anseranatidae
Genus: Anseranas
Species: Anseranas semipalmata (Latham, 1798)
Synonyms: Anas semipalmata Latham, 1798
