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 ...

The snow goose is an amazing bird, annually traversing the continent in an epic, 6,000-mile round trip migration that leads from remote arctic nesting areas to the coastal wintering grounds of ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of swans, geese, cranes and other waterfowl descend on a Montana lake on their way to the Arctic. A small town festival draws thousands of bird fans.

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.

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.