The snows are returning to eastern Colorado. The Ross’ geese can’t be far behind. That’s traditionally how it happens, anyway. First come the waves of bright white snow geese beginning their ...

But trumpeter swans are entirely white, while snow geese have black wing tips. Trumpeter swans measure 6-8 feet from wing tip to wing tip, while snow geese measure only about 3 feet.

I see hundreds of snow geese, many within 30 feet of the road, but the wind is howling and geese are in no mood to move. They go about eating, while I watch from inside a car on the tour road.

Snow geese fly in southeastern Colorado. (Photo courtesy of Jill Smith, Nature Made Photography) A goose photographed during the High Plains Snow Goose Festival in Lamar. (Provided by the High ...

The snow goose was literally eating himself out of house and home, and just not himself, but all the other birds and animals that inhabit the same area. Something had to give.

Hundreds of thousands of snow geese flock to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area as part of their spring migration. To stream FOX43 on your phone, you need the FOX43 app. Download the FOX43 app ...

Northern marshes are being turned into empty, desecrated mud flat wastelands. The culprit? Snow geese. These marshes are the breeding ground for snow geese. Once destroyed, some fear the species will ...

Known as “light geese” in the waterfowl identification world, this group includes the greater and lesser snow goose, the Ross’s goose and some variations, including hybrids of these geese.

If you want to see single flocks of 25,000, 40,000, or even twice that, you can do it right here in the Bayou State. In fact, the record high count for the species in Louisiana is 400,000 birds.

I took photos early yesterday afternoon of thousands of mostly white snow geese and white-headed geese at the Bassway Wildlife Management Area along Highway 10 between the Platte River and Minden ...