The snow goose is a medium-sized goose, 27-33 inches long with a wingspread of about 54 inches. However, like most birds, its looks heavier than its actual weight of 3.5-7 pounds. Males are ...

Snow goose invasion points to Arctic thaw. By Phil Mckenna. 8 April 2007 In February, birders from across Washington state flocked to the town of Stanwood, population 5068, for ...

A flock of snow geese takes flight in Skagit County, Wa. Milder weather in the Arctic has boosted the snow goose population — 80,000 snow geese were counted in the Skagit and Fraser deltas this ...

When the spring snow goose conservation order began in 1999, biologists miscalculated the number of mid-content snows by at least 5 million birds. At the time, it was thought that there were 3 million ...

The number of snow geese arriving in the Arctic each spring to breed has skyrocketed over the past few decades. At first, wildlife biologists saw this as an environmental crisis, pointing to marshes ...

This is an Inside Science story.. As the world shut down and we locked ourselves in our homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, snow geese in Canada took the opportunity to gorge themselves on corn ...

Now enter the Snow Goose, which is a medium-sized white goose with black wing tips and a pink bill, that nests in the Arctic tundra but is considered a common migrant in NJ and winters here.

How to tell it's a snow goose Snow geese are hard to miss. They're a big bird with a 4.5-foot wingspan and usually gather in large numbers, according to the Audubon Society.

IN FEBRUARY, birders from across Washington state flocked to the town of Stanwood, population 5068, for the area’s second annual Snow Goose Festival. Set up to boost the local economy, events ...