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Ross’s Goose, the Little Snow Goose

10,000 Birds

Every autumn, tens of thousands of Snow Geese arrive in California’s Sacramento Valley following their long journey from the Canadian Arctic (click on photos for full sized images). Snow and Ross’s Geese winter there in the tens of thousands. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a.

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What does the Keystone XL Pipeline have to do with Birds?

10,000 Birds

All four major flyways in North America — the aerial migration routes traveled by billions of birds each year — converge in one spot in Canada’s boreal forest, the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northeastern Alberta. From the Boreal Forest Fact Sheet : 325 bird species – that’s almost half of all the bird species in North America!

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