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Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 2022. 2022-2023 Migratory Game Bird Hunting Regulations. Alaska Department of Fish and Game 2022, Anchorage.
CAFF. 2018. A Global Audit of the Status and Trends of Arctic and Northern Hemisphere Goose Populations (Component 2: Population accounts). Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna International Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Dooley, J., Osnas, E. & Zimmerman, G. 2016. Analysis of emperor goose survey data and harvest potential. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Bird Management, Region 7 and Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council, Anchorage, Alaska.
IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2023).
MNRE (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment). 2021. Red List of the Russian Federation (Animals). Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Moscow.
Petersen, M. R.; Schmutz, J. A.; Rockwell, R. F. 1994. Emperor Goose (Chen canagica). In: Poole, A.; Gill, F. (ed.), The birds of North America, No. 97, pp. 1-20. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and The American Ornithologists' Union, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.
Schmutz, J. A., Petersen, M. R. and Rockwell, R. F. 2020. Emperor Goose (Anser canagicus), version 1.0. Ithaca, NY. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/empgoo/cur/introduction.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 2022. Waterfowl population status, 2022. U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington D. C., USA.
Wetlands International. 2022. Waterbird Populations Portal. Available at: https://wpp.wetlands.org.
Zöckler, C. & Lysenko, I. 2000. Water birds on the edge. First circumpolar assessment of climate change impact on Arctic breeding water birds. WCMC, Cambridge, U.K.
IUCN SSC Goose Specialist Group
IUCN SSC Threatened Waterfowl Specialist Group
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Emperor Goose Anser canagicus. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/emperor-goose-anser-canagicus on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.