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Description The Emperor Goose is gray stout boday, speckled with white and black. Its head an hindneck are white and the foreneck is black. They have a short, pink bill, white and black tail, and orange legs and feet. They grow up to 27 inches and can weigh as much as 6 pounds and make a kla ha kla ha sound. Lifecycle The Emperor Goose breed on marshy coasts of Western Alaska and in the winters in the Aleutian Islands. They breed in the summer and winter. The female lays three to eight dull white eggs in a line. The incubation ranges from 14 to 27 days, carried out by the female. The nest is built on an islet in marshy tundra or among driftwood.Habitat The Emperor Goose habitats are located on caosts, mud flats, and coastal tundra. They nest in Alaska and migrate to warmer climates in the winter. Diet They mostly eat seaweed, eel grass, sea lettuce, algae, beach rye, beach pea, sea beach sandwort, grass and sedges, crowberries, mollusks, and crustaceans.
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