A dead snow goose is pictured floating in the Berkeley Pit 21 years ago after a flock of the geese landed to wait out an overnight snow storm.

A dead snow goose is pictured floating in the Berkeley Pit 21 years ago after a flock of the geese landed to wait out an overnight snow storm. A flock of perhaps thousands of snow geese landed ...

Lowell Washburn Special to the Globe Gazette Mar 22, 2025 0 ...

Snow geese numbers usually peak at the end of March, with other migrating birds traveling through both before and after. The geese, while at Freezout Lake, feed twice a day in the surrounding fields.

Thousands of bright white and black migrating snow geese are easily spotted on the fields and in the sky over the 15,000-acre McNary Wildlife National Refuge near Pasco.

Fish shelter inside it. And birds like the black brant depend on it for the energy to migrate — or overwinter. The U.S. Geological Survey surveyed the eelgrass cover at Izembek in 2016 and 2020.

The population of snow geese has more than tripled in the past 30 years -- up to about 1.4 million birds. That's resulted in serious damage to fragile artic nesting areas, Washburn said.

GREENFIELD—Hundreds of thousands of lesser snow geese are currently pushing their way northward across Iowa. A spring spectacular of the highest order, the migration is hailed by scientists as ...