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A mix of snow geese, Ross's geese, and greater white-fronted geese taking off over farmland adjacent to Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in California.
The brown ones are the GWFG; the snow geese and Ross's are very similar in appearance, but can often be told apart in flight based on neck length, bill length and shape, and the shape of the head. Adults of all 3 species have pinkish bills.
Several 100,000 geese winter at the refuge. How many geese in this photo? Hundreds for certain. According to Cornell University's ornithology website, snow geese can form flocks of several hundred thousand!
All together now! [view large]
A mix of snow geese, Ross's geese, and greater white-fronted geese taking off over farmland adjacent to Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in California.
The brown ones are the GWFG; the snow geese and Ross's are very similar in appearance, but can often be told apart in flight based on neck length, bill length and shape, and the shape of the head. Adults of all 3 species have pinkish bills.
Several 100,000 geese winter at the refuge. How many geese in this photo? Hundreds for certain. According to Cornell University's ornithology website, snow geese can form flocks of several hundred thousand!