When European conquerors arrived in America, was baptized with the name of " Bustard ". John Byron, in 1723, called it "goose painted" and then was Buffon who represented her in 1783 in color plates with the name of "Magellanic Goose" . Years later is wrong Bouganville who demonstrates the use of "bustard" as real members of other non-American family and order.
Thus, over time it has been established that the most appropriate name for these birds esbletas forms, small head and short beak, is the Upland Goose, Caiques or Canquén, Mapuche words that is known throughout the Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. Divide into three species:
- Chloephaga picta : Upland Goose, male with white chest-Chloephaga
poliocephala : Cauquén head gray striped male breast
-Chloephaga rubidiceps: Ruddy
scientific name means: Chloe (Greek): grass, Phage (Greek): high
nests in our country from Neuquén to Tierra del Fuego. In autumn, the Cauquén migrate south in the province of Buenos Aires and La Pampa and occasionally something can go further north.
Its features regularly inhabit the Upland Goose in the plains of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, where the weather is cold and dry with snow and ice most of the year. There are plenty of areas of land are low, wet and flat areas (valleys) and very tender grasses. They also elect the where a proliferation of small bushes and shrubs xeric plants , near rivers, streams, creeks and ponds cold.
These birds are gregarious habits and always meet in groups or large flocks.
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