blue-winged goose
cyanochen cyanoptera latin

Cyanochen, Blue-winged Goose - Tadorninae or more distant clade?

The Blue-winged Goose is a quiet species, but both sexes may give a soft whistle; it does not honk or cackle like the true geese.

The Blue-winged Goose (Cyanochen cyanoptera) is a waterfowl species which is endemic to Ethiopia.

The Blue-winged Goose, Cyanochen cyanopterus and the Cape Barren Goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae have disputed affinities.

The habitats of the Blue-winged Goose are primarily rivers, freshwater lakes, swamps, freshwater marshes, water storage areas, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland or grassland.

Birds include Rueppell's Chat, the finch Ankober Serin (Serinus ankoberensis), White-winged Flufftail (Sarothrura ayresi), and Blue-winged Goose.

Analysis of mtDNA sequences of the cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 genes suggests that it belongs into a very distinct clade-possibly a subfamily of its own-together with the Blue-winged Goose, another African species of waterfowl with uncertain affinities.

The Blue-winged Goose (Cyanochen cyanoptera) is a waterfowl species which is endemic to Ethiopia.