The Blue-winged Goose is restricted to the Ethiopian Highlands and has blue-gray wing panels on a gray-brown body. It grazes near rivers and ponds and spends much of the year in flocks.
It has a gray-brown body with a paler gray head and neck. The blue-gray wing panels show both at rest and in flight. The sexes look similar, although females may appear somewhat duller and paler.
It spends more than half the year in flocks, commonly reported at about 40–60 birds. As the breeding season begins, flocks break up and pairs form.
Near rivers and freshwater ponds, it forages on foot in wet grassland, mainly at night, eating grasses, sedges, and green parts of aquatic plants.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.