Alopochen aegyptiaca
System : Freshwater_terrestrial
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Anseriformes
Anatidae
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Recommended citation: Global Invasive Species Database (2025) Species profile: Alopochen aegyptiaca. Downloaded from http://iucngisd.org/gisd/speciesname/Alopochen+aegyptiaca on 14-01-2025.

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Red List assessed species 7: LC = 7;
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Bibliography
11 references found for Alopochen aegyptiaca

Management information
Rehfisch, M.M., Allan, J.R. & Austin, G.E., (2010). The effect on the environment of Great Britain’s naturalized Greater Canada Branta canadensis and Egyptian Geese Alopochen aegyptiacus.
General information
Blair, M.J., McKay, H., Musgrove A.J. & Rehfisch, M.M. (2000). Review of the Status of Introduced Non-Native Waterbird Species in the Agreement Area of the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement Research Contract CR0219, British Trust for Ornithology
Brown, P. (2014) Specieswatch: Egyptian goose, The Guardian
CABI (2015). Alopochen aegyptiaca (Egyptian goose).
Gates, N. et al., Egyptian Goose. GB Non-native Species Secretariat. Produced by RPS.
Gyimesi, A. & Lensink, R. (2010). Risk analysis of the Egyptian Goose in The Netherlands, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Invasive Alien Species Team
Gyimesi, A. & Lensink, R.O.B. (2012). Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca: an introduced species spreading in and from the Netherlands. Wildfowl, 62(Weller 1969), pp.126 - 143.
Huysentruyt, F., Callaghan, C.T., Strubbe, D., Winston, K., Adriaens, T., Brooks, D.M. (2019). 14 Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca Linnaeus, 1766). In: Downs CT, Hart LA, eds. Global trends and impacts of alien invasive birds. Wallingford: CABI.
Invasive Species In Belgium (2015). Alopochen aegyptiacus - Egyptian goose.
Lever, C. (2005). Naturalized Birds of the World. Bloomsbury, London.
O’Connor, J.M. (2016). The population and range expansion of the Egyptian Goose (Alopachen aegyptiacus) across the UK 1993-2014. A thesis submitted for the degree of Biomolecular Science (MSCr). University of East Anglia, UK
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