Magpie Goose
Order: Anseriformes. Family: Anseranatidae
The family contains a single species, the Magpie Goose. It was an early and distinctive offshoot of the anseriform family tree, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans, sometime in the late Cretaceous. The single species is a vagrant to Tasmania.
- Magpie Goose, Anseranus semipalmata (V)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Tasmania
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