Dark morph "Blue Goose" in the background with white morph in the foreground. Dare Co., NC10 Dec 2006 |
'Greater' Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens) Pea Island NWR, Dare Co., NC 10 Nov 2007 This female goose is over 12 years old. It was banded as an adult on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada in 1997. You can report sightings of live 'Greater' Snow Geese with neck collars at this website:http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/gon-gsg/en_description.htm Click on the links on that site to either report your sighting or to search for information about a specific collar you've seen. Note that DEAD birds should be reported to the Bird Banding Lab at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/homepage/recwobnd.cfm. |
Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 |
Dark morph "Blue Goose" (Chen caerulescens) Kalamazoo Co., MI 15 Mar 2004 |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Dare Co., NC 10 Dec 2006 A common sight of the upper North Carolina coastal plain, Snow Geese are white bodies with white wings and black wingtips. |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Hyde Co., NC 28 Jan 2007 This is a tiny fraction of the Snow Goose flock, present every year, at Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Note that there are lots of Tundra Swans already in the field. |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 | |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 | |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 | |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 | |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 | |
Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde Co., NC 11 Jan 2015 Thousands of geese were already on the ground while thousands more continued to stream in from the nearby lakes |
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