Blue-winged Goose

Blue-winged geese (Cyanochen cyanopterus) are blue-winged Goose birds in the genus Cyanopterus.

The range of blue-winged geese is generally high elevation grassland scrub or grassland, at an altitude of about 1800 meters. Nomadic foraging near water, feeding mainly on grasses, seeds, various aquatic plants, mollusks, and fish.

Blue-winged geese breed near the edges of lakes, rivers, ponds and swamps. Because the Ethiopian highlands are relatively cold, the nest is built in dense undergrowth, and the nesting material is made of thick straw. After laying eggs, the female plucks a large number of feathers from her body and places them in the nest. Each clutch lays 4-9 pink gray eggs, which hatch for 30 to 34 days.

Listed in the International Red Book of Birds of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2009 list ver 3.1 - Vulnerable (VU).

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Blue-winged geese are endemic to Ethiopia and are found only in the Ethiopian highlands of Africa.
It inhabits subtropical and tropical rivers, freshwater lakes, swamps.

Any of several birds of the genus Cyanopterus of the Anseriformes family. This is the only species in the genus. It is named after the grey blue feathers on its wings. It is similar to the male and female, and is found only in the Ethiopian plateau of Africa. Omnivorous birds that feed primarily on a variety of aquatic plants, mollusks, and fish. Blue-winged geese are 60 to 75 cm long. The head and upper neck are pale grayish-brown; Small and middle cover light gray, large cover light blue, primary and secondary fly feathers black.