True geese and their relativesīarnacle geese ( Branta leucopsis) in Naantali, Finland This term also gave Lithuanian: žąsìs, Irish: gé (goose, from Old Irish géiss), Hindi: कलहंस, Latin: anser, Spanish and Portuguese: ganso, Ancient Greek: χήν ( khēn), Albanian: gatë ( swans), Finnish: hanhi, Avestan zāō, Polish: gęś, Romanian: gâscă / gânsac, Ukrainian: гуска / гусак ( huska / husak), Russian: гусыня / гусь ( gusyna / gus), Czech: husa, and Persian: غاز ( ghāz). In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling. The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. The collective noun for a group of geese on the ground is a gaggle when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge when flying close together, they are called a plump. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. The term "goose" may refer to either a male or female bird, but when paired with " gander", refers specifically to a female one (the latter referring to a male). More distantly related members of the family Anatidae are swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller. Some other birds, mostly related to the shelducks, have "goose" as part of their names.
This group comprises the genera Anser (the grey geese and white geese) and Branta (the black geese).
A goose ( PL: geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae.
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