Bean Goose

Anser fabalis (Latham, 1787)

		adult 1-st years in flight
2022-04-29 Krasnoyarsk Territory, Shushensky District 2021-09-21 Irkutskaya obl., i. Olhon2019-09-22 Baikal, Olkhonsky district	© Sergey Chumakov © Marina Zubareva© Aleksey Bolshakov

Distribution

Breeds in the north of Eurasia, from tundras to taiga. Four subspecies: A.f.rossicus - tundras west from Taimyr, A.f.serrirostris - from Taimyr to Chukotka; A.f.fabalis - forest zone of Europe and Western Siberia; A.f.middendorffii - taiga east from Yenisey. Western tundra subspecies (A.f.rossicus) is rather common, others are declining or rare, especially populations wintering in the continental East Asia.

References

В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Сибири". Москва-Екатеринбург, Изд-во "Кабинетный ученый", 2014.<br>Сыроечковский Е.Е. и др. Полевой определитель гусеобразных птиц России. М., 2011.