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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. Map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds and Birding.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Ding Darling NWR, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Big Cypress National Preserve, Loxahatchee NWR, and Everglades National Park. Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico.