{{Distinguish|text=the other birds, for which see [[Magpie]] and [[Magpie duck]]}}
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The '''magpie goose''' ('''''Anseranas semipalmata''''') is the sole living representative [[species]] of the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Anseranatidae]]. This common [[waterbird]] is found in northern [[Australia]] and southern [[New Guinea]].<ref name=HBW>{{cite book | author=Carboneras, C. | titlesection=Magpie Goose | editor1=del Hoyo, J. | editor2=Elliott, A. | editor3=Sargatal, J. | year=1992 | worktitle=Handbook of the Birds of the World | volume=1 | publisher=Lynx Edicions | pages=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0001unse/page/574 574–575] | isbn=84-87334-10-5 | url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0001unse/page/574 }}</ref> As the species is prone to wandering, especially when not breeding, it is sometimes recorded outside its core range.<ref name=HBW/> The species was once also widespread in southern Australia but disappeared from there largely due to the drainage of the wetlands where the birds once bred. Due to their importance to Aboriginal people as a seasonal food source,<ref>Whitehead, P. J., M. Storrs, M. McKaige, R. Kennett, and M. Douglas. 2000. Wise use of wetlands in northern Australia: indigenous use. Centre for Tropical Wetlands Management and Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management. Northern Territory University, Darwin.</ref> as subjects of recreational hunting,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Whitehead|first1=PJ|last2=Bayliss|first2=P|last3=Fox|first3=RE|date=1988|title=Recreational Waterfowl Hunting Activity and Harvests in Northern-Territory, Australia|journal=Wildlife Research|volume=15|issue=6|pages=625|doi=10.1071/wr9880625|issn=1035-3712}}</ref> and as a tourist attraction, their expansive and stable presence in northern Australia has been "ensured [by] protective management".<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Traill|first=Lochran William|date=2009|title=Conservation of north Australian magpie geese Anseranas semipalmate populations under global change.|url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/57035/8/02whole.pdf|type=PhD Dissertation|pages=13}}</ref>
