pink-footed goose

noun

1. a Eurasian goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, having a reddish-brown head, pink legs, and a pink band on its black beak

Example Sentences

My incredulous snorts echoed in the near-empty theater: “A pink-footed goose on a mountain in Colorado!?”

From Slate

The largest increases were for the European bison, the Eurasian beaver, the white-headed duck, some populations of the pink-footed goose and the barnacle goose.

From BBC

George Wyllie, right, and the clan chief George MacMillan of MacMilan with a scul?ture celebrating the creation of the first bicycle Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian A granite pink-footed goose egg glinting on lava rock is what you first encounter when entering the timely George Wyllie exhibition in the garden of the Scottish parliament.

From The Guardian

On consulting Yarrell, I found the following passage:—'In January of the present year, 1841, I was favoured with a letter from the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Keppel, of Warham Rectory, near Holkam, informing me that a Pink-footed Goose had been killed by his nephew, Lord Coke, at Holkam.

From Project Gutenberg

He answered, that he made his home there because it was the only spot in England in which, sitting in his own room, he could listen to the cry of the pink-footed goose.

From Project Gutenberg