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Spur-winged Goose

Plectropterus gambensis · Family Anatidae

Plectropterus gambensis

Family Anatidae

Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
GBIF occurrence records
203,274
Countries and territories with records
51
Spur-winged Goose
Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · Spur-winged Geese (Plectropterus gambensis niger) male.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 203,274 occurrence records from 51 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (79.8%), Botswana (4.4%), Zambia (2.2%), Tanzania (1.8%) and Namibia (1.7%); together they account for 89.8% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.41% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Plectropterus gambensis combines the genus name Plectropterus with the species epithet gambensis. It is the only species of the genus Plectropterus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 162 species of the family Anatidae. This species ranks 70th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Anas platyrhynchos. Its record count is 16% of the family average (1,269,675). The family Anatidae belongs to the order Anseriformes, which has 166 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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