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Greater White-fronted Geese at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

In North America, the Greater White-fronted Goose breeds in open tundra areas of the low Arctic from Point Barrow, Alaska to northeastern Keewatin, Northwest Territories, and it winters south to Chiapas, Mexico, thus having the broadest latitudinal range of any arctic-nesting goose 1.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Nome, Alaska. Of course, there are also many potential lifers that are essentially impossible to see in outside of Alaska, at least in the United States. Prairie Pothole Region of the United States , primary in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. And when else would I ever get to see Nome?