There are two subspecies of snow geese: greater snow geese, which typically spend their summers farther north on Arctic Canadian islands like Ellesmere and Baffin, and lesser snow geese, which are ...

A snow goose takes off Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 at Javier De La Vega Park in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Snow geese are one of the most abundant waterfowl species, and they are increasing rapidly.

Numbering in the millions of birds, dense colonies of snow geese on the breeding grounds in the central Canadian Arctic have cause widespread ecological damage there.

U.S. and Canadian wildlife biologists are working together to balance the welfare of these birds, the habitat and environmental concerns they pose, and the role of hunters in keeping snow geese ...

It was once thought that snow geese were destroying the Canadian arctic and would thus destroy themselves. Pixabay. When the spring conservation order was passed, biologists were concerned that the ...

Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area has launched an interactive platform where people can livestream the snow geese ... roughly 500 tundra swans and 1,500 Canadian geese," said Lauren ...

Only 12 snow geese were spotted in the region during the 1999 count, she said. By 2005, the number ballooned to 51,700.. But this year, birders saw an all-time high, 226,252 snow geese.

Margie Manthey, of Marietta, send me this cool photo of snow geese in flight. She wrote: "OK, friends are starting to ask me, "Are you Dr. Doolittle or something?" Ha ha .... but there's just so ...

Texas has a snow goose problem — it’s losing them, fast. The midwinter population of snow geese on the primary wintering grounds of the Texas coastal prairies and marshes has dropped from more ...

Snow goose numbers climbed to an estimated 150,000 on Tuesday, March 12, at the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area on the Lancaster-Lebanon county line at ...

Great clouds of snow geese are streaming across our winter skies, having arrived along Texas’ coastal regions and inland fallow farm fields after flying more than 1,600 miles from the Arctic.