The Seasonal Birds Geumgang Birdwatch Observatory Movement of the Seasonal Birds The Upper Part of the Estuary Bank The Lower Part of the Estuary Bank Eoeun-ri Tidal Flat Paper Corea Woods Yubudo Island Napo Crossfield   [Bean goose] Anser fabalis (LATHAM) Features£ºThe color of the brow of male and female, the crown of the head, back head, and back neck is dark brown, and they have a narrow and white stripe around their beak. Their cheek, feathers of neck, the bottom of chin, and throat have lighter brown than the crown of the head. The bottom neck is light brown, and the space between the shoulders and the feathers of shoulder are dark ashy brown. The back, the waist, and the feathers covering the upper tail are dirty brown. The side and the end of the feathers covering the upper tail are white. The breast and the stomach are light brown, and the color of the under part is lighter. The side is dark brown. The feathers of wing are black brown. The tail is dark brown, and the end of the part has the white wide edge, and the side edge is white and slender. They have 16-18 feathers. Their beak is black, and the end of the part has a yellow stripe. The color of the legs is orange and that of claw is black. Mode of life: They are the winter season birds passing the winter through all the area, but they are passing the winter in more limited area as compared with white-fronted goose. They start movement to Korea late in October, and they leave Korea late in March. Call: They are heard "goo-goo-goo-goo", "gwa-woo", or "gya-woo" when they are near and "gwa-han" from a distance The breeding time; : They make their nest in the place where the males can keep a watch in a group or at intervals of 15 meters. The number of eggs of the same litter is 4-5 and some lay no less than seven eggs. The females would not leave the nest once they start brooding over eggs for hatching, and they leave nest to find food once a day. Taste: They are herbivores, so they live on various crops and vegetables including green leaves of wheat and barley, fallen grains, corn, wheat, barley, potato, sweet potato, the leaves of weed, stem, and fruit. Range: They can be found in the northern part of the old Scandinavian area and from the North pole to he northern part of Mongolia. They go south to the southern part of the temperate zones in winter
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