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title: "Kleine rietgans"
description: "Anser brachyrhynchus — Vogels. The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/pink-footed-goose
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kleine rietgans

> Anser brachyrhynchus — Vogels. The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya.

- Scientific name: *Anser brachyrhynchus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren), `arctic` (Poolgebied)
- iNaturalist observations: 4715
- Wikidata: [Q209419](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209419)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7007](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7007)

## Names

- en: Pink-footed Goose
- de: Kurzschnabelgans
- es: Ánsar piquicorto
- fr: Oie à bec court
- nl: Kleine rietgans
- pt: Ganso-de-bico-curto
- pl: Gęś krótkodzioba

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1828), US (400), DE (273), IS (265), CA (237), SJ (216), DK (114), NO (109), NL (69), BE (60), PT (59), FI (50)

## Summary

The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. The name is often abbreviated in colloquial usage to "pinkfoot" (plural "pinkfeet"). Anser is the Latin for "goose", and brachyrhynchus comes from the ancient Greek brachus, meaning "short", and rhunchos, meaning "bill".

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

## Photo

![Kleine rietgans](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pink-footed-goose/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sean Haight · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/326852337

## Machine access

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