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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamily Anserinae — mostgeese .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Next, we have a group who lacks spelling skills: The Anser, from Salt Lake City.
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Next, we have a group who lacks spelling skills: The Anser, from Salt Lake City.
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One of the lawyers, Anser Farooq, is calling for a public inquiry as to why an innocent person was kept behind bars for 18 months in solitary confinement.
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One of the lawyers, Anser Farooq, is calling for a public inquiry as to why an innocent person was kept behind bars for 18 months in solitary confinement.
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It is also essential winter habitat for up to 500,000 overwintering ducks and waterbirds such as teal Anas crecca (160,000), wigeon Anas Penelope (100,000), greylag goose Anser anser (100,000), most of Spain's herons, white stork Ciconia ciconia, stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus and slender-billed gull Larus genei.
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In the boreal forest and mountainous areas of northern Fennoscandia the major hunted wildlife species are moose, grouse, dabbling ducks and some diving ducks, and bean geese (Anser fabalis).
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Fennoscandian North 2009
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With increasing temperatures, in concert with other long-term changes, such as wetland eutrophication, populations of some waterfowl species, for example whistling swans (Cygnus columbianus), eider ducks (Somateria spp.), and greylag geese (Anser anser), are expected to increase in size and to expand their distribution.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Fennoscandian North 2009
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Of the 23 populations, five populations of greylag goose (Anser anser anser and A.a. rubirostris) do not nest in the Arctic; neither do the two populations of Canada goose (Branta canadensis) which are not native to the region.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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Pintail (Anas acuta) and mallard ducks (A. platyrhynchos), both mainland species, and white-fronted goose or "yellow legs" (Anser albifrons) and tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus), both historically rare on Banks Island, have been observed in increasingly larger numbers.
Climate change impacts on Canadian Western Arctic~ the Inuvialuit of Sachs Harbour 2009
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And the debate went on, what does it do about Anser al-Islam operating from this little nook of what we think of as the Kurdish north of Iraq.
CT-SEN: Lieberman Suggests Terrorists Were In Iraq Before U.S. Invasion 2009
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