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title: "Ganso-das-neves-pequeno"
description: "Anser rossii — Aves. Ross's goose (Anser rossii) is a white goose with black wingtips and a relatively short neck."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/ross-s-goose
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ganso-das-neves-pequeno

> Anser rossii — Aves. Ross's goose (Anser rossii) is a white goose with black wingtips and a relatively short neck.

- Scientific name: *Anser rossii*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios), `arctic` (Ártico)
- iNaturalist observations: 7629
- Wikidata: [Q244320](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244320)
- iNaturalist taxon: [558427](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/558427)

## Names

- en: Ross's Goose
- de: Zwergschneegans
- es: Ánsar de Ross
- fr: Oie de Ross
- it: Chen rossii
- nl: Ross-gans
- pt: Ganso-das-neves-pequeno
- pl: Śnieżyca mała

## Countries with the most observations

US (6020), CA (868), GB (89), MX (52), BE (14), NL (11), DE (10), DK (5), BM (4), RU (4), NO (3)

## Summary

Ross's goose (Anser rossii) is a white goose with black wingtips and a relatively short neck. It is the smallest of the three white geese that breed in North America. It is similar in appearance to a white-phase snow goose, but about 40% smaller. Other differences from the snow goose are that the bill is smaller in proportion to its body and lacks "black lips". Like snow geese, Ross's geese may exhibit a darker "blue" phase or morph, though this is extremely rare (<0.01% of adult birds).
Before the early 1900s, this goose was considered a rare species, possibly as a consequence of open hunting, but numbers have increased…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%27s_goose

## Photo

![Ganso-das-neves-pequeno](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ross-s-goose/medium.jpg)

Photo: Patty Lane · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258567981

## Machine access

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