Calm, vigilant, territorial. Bonds well with humans and the place of keeping. Less timid than many other goose breeds. Strong instinct to protect territory and offspring. Vocal, uses voice to warn of danger.
Local breed of gray goose (Anser anser), endemic to the Faroe Islands. Distinguished by significantly smaller size (25–35% lighter than the wild gray goose), compact, stocky, “sturdy” body conformation, short and thick neck, small rounded head, deep wide chest, and pronounced ability to accumulate subcutaneous fat. Body length 750–920 mm, wingspan 1480–1680 mm. Main color gray with scaly pattern on the back and shoulders; belly and undertail light (white or off-white). Classic gray, silvery-gray, and bluish-gray variants are allowed. Proportions: body length to neck length 2.4–2.6:1, body depth ≈ neck length, head ≈ 1/7–1/8 of total length. Retains the ability to fly.
pecking
Neck length
Worker
birth time
Describes the act of excavating soil or substrate to locate or access food.
Fins.other color
Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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When your next jubilee falls in {name} life years
Human
very cold, short summer, almost no trees, lots of moss
days
Warm summer
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
Eggs length
beak
adult waterfowl
Maturity
Confidence
Handbag
plant
invertebrates
plants
About health
from 1.2 to 4.8 kilograms, 0.7 – 1.4 meters
marine coastal
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
Repro interval
results
summer warm, winter not very cold
Eggs count
Colors
Sex
Upcoming jubilees
Gremllins
mo
conifer cones
all seas and oceans
Trophic type
all living animals without backbone
Filters
grain
grass
Upcoming birthdays
standing fresh waters — lakes, ponds, oxbow lakes
Breeding structure built or used for laying eggs and raising offspring.
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
rains almost always, very humid
Age (juvenile)
Age (from birth to death)
cones of coniferous trees with seeds
Age (embryo)
Domestic world
most of Europe and Asia, various forests, steppes and tundra
Wanderers
algae
Wings size
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
More:
Tundra
Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
Business sausages
roots
Lifespan average
fledgling
Juvenile stage following larval metamorphosis but not yet adult.
Eyes diameter
What do they look like?
Maturity
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
Wings color
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
end of acceleration
Share
swampy freshwater biotopes — peat bogs, marshes, river mangroves
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
digging
Pets
Repeatedly strikes or probes substrate with beak to obtain food.
Lots of rain and cool summer
Feeding occurs primarily on land or in vegetation.
{name} jubilee
cm
Old-timers
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Wingspan
Neck color
turns
Rascals
terrestrial forest
Flooded grasslands
grains of cereals — wheat, rice, millet, maize
Litter size
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
grazing
°C
Not specified
Share
Actively searching habitats to locate food items.
Where are they found?
all rivers and lakes
herbivore
Eggs color
Down color
Feeds by cropping or nibbling low-growing vegetation or algae.
lots of rain, cool summer, snow in winter
Locomotion through water employed while searching for or capturing prey.
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
training aptitude
Elders
leaves and stems of grasses and other herbaceous vegetation
Bro
lakes and ponds
freshwater marsh and wetlands
Taxons
if born as {name}
age
birth date
swimming
Palearctic realm
Close
was
Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
The basics
herbivory, feed only on plant food
My weight?
Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
primary food sources
Beak size
after transformation until death
Potential Habitat
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
Feeding occurs in water bodies such as rivers, lakes, or oceans.
Mass
cold winter, lots of coniferous trees: spruce, pine
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
terrestrial
Gestation
Feathers color
aquatic
{name} birthday
Link copied
No results found
underground
Torso length
Eyes color
On the map
all life stages
Female ♀
Pleasant summer
Eggs width
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
birth year
Maturity
terrestrial habitat, land surface outside water
sq mm
yr
Beak color
comfortable summer, +20…+25 °C
How similar?
live in homes and on farms
Male ♂
until the celebration
gosling
Torso width
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
Legs color
What if eaten?
Neither
from birth to adulthood
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
Head length
nest
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
Immature individual that has not yet reached reproductive maturity.
Marine world
from birth to death
Plumage color
forests on land — tropical, temperate, boreal
water often floods the land, lots of grass
Freshwater
Temperate mixed forest
Duration
saline marine habitat
This is me
freshwater
Always very wet
Gamers
aquatic plants and algae
How are they built?
marine
mm
Theoretical lifespan
ml
Stars
Link copied
coastal marine zone — shelf, neritic zone
My age?
wk
My size?
terrestrial
Taiga
Asexual
swap
roots and plant tubers
freshwater environment — rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps
Beak length
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Where do they take shelter?
Warm summer and lots of rain
Head color
celebrated their {n} birthday
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
foraging
Hermaphrodite ⚥
egg
Hard, projecting mouthpart used to probe, pluck, or crack food.
summer warm, many oaks, birches, maples
Length
kg
lots of rain, warm and pleasant summer
Observations
◉{N} more on tap
gosling
pupa
imago
young bird