Greylag Goose

Anser anser

Greylag Goose photographed by Jess
Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve, Merseyside · July 18, 2026

When to look

Reported most in April, across 3.2M open records.

Records by month. January, 217,121 records. February, 236,874 records. March, 456,407 records. April, 520,338 records. May, 453,149 records. June, 202,950 records. July, 205,429 records. August, 207,175 records. September, 207,212 records. October, 220,444 records. November, 148,231 records. December, 145,051 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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