Formerly treated as one species, the two
bean geese have been split on the basis of their breeding habitats as much as anything.
As its name suggests, taiga breeds in bogs, marshes and pools in the taiga forest belt from northern
Scandinavia east across Russia. Numbers wintering in the UK have been much reduced of late.
The old site in the Yare Valley rarely holds any. There are still numbers
in the Slammanan valley in Scotland, but fewer than in the past. A few singles/pairs still occur each year,
such as the left-hand bird. The others were taken in Finland.
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