{"id":14776,"date":"2012-06-29T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T20:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/geese\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:12:44","slug":"spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/geese\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spur-winged Goose, (Plectropterus gambensis), is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Spur-winged Goose\u00a0<i>Plectropterus\u00a0gambensis<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-24-14776\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-9506\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis-1-copy_0.jpg\" title=\"Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" alt=\"Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis)  copy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis\/thumbs\/thumbs_spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis-1-copy_0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis)  copy.jpg<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2610\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis-2.jpg\" title=\"Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis) at Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK\" alt=\"Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis\/thumbs\/thumbs_spur-winged-goose-plectropterus-gambensis-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spur-winged Goose, (Plectropterus gambensis), is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Factsheet: Spur-winged Goose\u00a0Plectropterus\u00a0gambensis\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":14556,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1491,1490],"class_list":["post-14776","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-plectropterus-gambensis","tag-spur-winged-goose","ngg_tag-baga","ngg_tag-baga-hills","ngg_tag-goa","ngg_tag-inde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14776\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}