| Description 65-75 cm. Smaller and darker than the Greylag Goose. It has a grey-brown body, with ragged black bars on belly and pale bars on back. It got its name of the distinctive white patch at its forehead. The juveniles has no white patch, it is characteristic only for adult species. Its bill is pink. In Hungary the White-fronted Goose is common passage and winter visitor. Occurs in large numbers predominantly on the Great Plain but has increased in Transdanubia since the nineties. Habitat Winters on wet pastures, coastal marshes and estuaries, breeds on northern bogs and tundra Can be found in the following IBAs 03 Lake Fertő 04 Kis-Balaton 07 Inner Somogy 09 Béda Karapancsa 10 Gemenc 11 Sárvíz valley 12 Lake Velence and Dinnyés marshes 14 Lake Öreg at Tata 22 Danube plain 26 Pusztaszer Landscape Protection Area 27 Puszta at Pitvaros 28 Lake Fehér at Kardoskút 30 Biharugra fish-ponds 32 Hortobágy 33 Lake Tisza | _300x180.jpg)
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