Duck! 9501
No, snow goose! But duck was something I thought I would need to do when this near sighted goose flew in too close! The photo was taken from the flight deck at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, where tens of thousands of light geese spend the winter. Light geese are a combination of snow geese and Ross's geese. Snow geese, like this one, have a slight opening at the sides of their mouth called a "grin patch." The grin patch is absent in the slightly smaller Ross's goose. Snow geese have two color morphs, a white morph, which this goose is, and a blue morph. The blue morph occurs as the result of a single dominant gene. The white morph is homozygous recessive. When choosing a mate a bird will almost always choose a bird that looks more like its parents. Somehow that doesn't surprise me, as people frequently do the same thing. Nature is funny that way! #IloveNature #ILoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #NewMexico #Nature in #America #USA #BosquedelApacheNWR #SnowGeese #Canon #Bringit #DrDADBooks #Photography #Picoftheday #ItsSnowingGeese #Photooftheday
Duck! 9501
No, snow goose! But duck was something I thought I would need to do when this near sighted goose flew in too close! The photo was taken from the flight deck at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, where tens of thousands of light geese spend the winter. Light geese are a combination of snow geese and Ross's geese. Snow geese, like this one, have a slight opening at the sides of their mouth called a "grin patch." The grin patch is absent in the slightly smaller Ross's goose. Snow geese have two color morphs, a white morph, which this goose is, and a blue morph. The blue morph occurs as the result of a single dominant gene. The white morph is homozygous recessive. When choosing a mate a bird will almost always choose a bird that looks more like its parents. Somehow that doesn't surprise me, as people frequently do the same thing. Nature is funny that way! #IloveNature #ILoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #NewMexico #Nature in #America #USA #BosquedelApacheNWR #SnowGeese #Canon #Bringit #DrDADBooks #Photography #Picoftheday #ItsSnowingGeese #Photooftheday