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title: "Swan Goose"
description: "Anser cygnoides — Uccelli. The swan goose (Anser cygnoides) is a large goose with a natural breeding range in inland Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/swan-goose
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Swan Goose

> Anser cygnoides — Uccelli. The swan goose (Anser cygnoides) is a large goose with a natural breeding range in inland Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East.

- Scientific name: *Anser cygnoides*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Laghi e fiumi), `farm` (Fattoria)
- iNaturalist observations: 19562
- Wikidata: [Q31354](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31354)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7014](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7014)

## Names

- en: Swan Goose
- de: Schwanengans
- es: Ánsar cisnal
- fr: Oie cygnoïde
- nl: Zwaangans
- pt: Ganso-africano
- pl: Gęś łabędzionosa

## Countries with the most observations

US (9032), CN (1002), IT (598), DE (505), IN (364), FR (308), BR (302), MX (270), ES (218), GB (164), MY (113), RU (101)

## Summary

The swan goose (Anser cygnoides) is a large goose with a natural breeding range in inland Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East. It is migratory and winters mainly in central and eastern China. Vagrant birds are encountered in Japan and Korea (where it used to winter in numbers when it was more common), and more rarely in Kazakhstan, Laos, coastal Siberia, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan.
While uncommon in the wild, this species has been extensively domesticated, when it is known as Chinese goose. Introduced and feral populations of its domestic breeds occur in many places outside its natural range.…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_goose

## Photo

![Swan Goose](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/swan-goose/medium.jpg)

Photo: Steve Milsom · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/378896616

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/swan-goose?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).