greylag
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]greylag (plural greylags)
- A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
- 1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl[1], page 150:
- Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.
- 2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:
- Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.
- 2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:
- Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.
Synonyms
[edit]- (Anser anser): greylag goose
Translations
[edit]large European goose — see greylag goose
See also
[edit]- Anser
- Category:Anser anser on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons