English

A greylag

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• graylag

Noun

greylag ‎(plural greylags)

1. A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
   • 1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, 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, 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

• (Anser anser): greylag goose

Translations

See also

• Anser
• Anser anser on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons