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The snow goose has two color plumage morphs, white (snow) or gray/blue (blue), thus the common description as "snows" and "blues". White-morph birds are white except for black wing tips, but blue-morph geese have bluish-gray plumage replacing the white except on the head, neck and tail tip.
Cackling goose: Branta hutchinsii (Richardson, 1832) 16 Bar-headed goose: Anser indicus (Latham, 1790) 17 Emperor goose: Anser canagicus (Sevastianov, 1802) 18 Ross's goose: Anser rossii Cassin, 1861: 19 Snow goose: Anser caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758) 20 Greylag goose: Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758) 21 Swan goose: Anser cygnoides (Linnaeus, 1758 ...
Ross's goose (Anser rossii), formerly Chen rossii, is a white goose with black wingtips and a relatively short neck. It is the smallest of the three white geese that breed in North America. It is similar in appearance to a white-phase snow goose, but about 40% smaller.
A. c. atlantica Kennard 1927 (greater snow goose) A. c. caerulescens (Linnaeus 1758) (lesser snow goose) Subgenus Brisson 1760. Anser anser (Linnaeus 1758) (greylag goose) LC. A. a. anser (Linnaeus 1758) (Western Greylag Goose) A. a. rubrirostris Swinhoe 1871 (Eastern Greylag Goose) Anser cygnoides (Linnaeus 1758) (swan goose) VU A2bcd+3bcd+4bcd
Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer. [1] Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his most critically successful book, for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation, and for four novels about the beloved character of Mrs ...
Dani Reiss was 27 when he took over his grandfather's cold-weather clothing company, Canada Goose, in 2001. Much like the heirs of Arnault and Murdoch, Reiss assumed leadership of the $1.6 billion ...
This is a list of characters from the two Philip Pullman trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Introduced in Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua Main article: Lyra Belacqua Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials and a key character in The Book of Dust. Together with her dæmon Pantalaimon, she is introduced in La Belle Sauvage ...
Japanese macaques can survive in cold temperatures of below −15°C (5°F), and are among very few primates that can do so.. Chionophiles are any organisms (animals, plants, fungi, etc.) that can thrive in cold winter conditions (the word is derived from the Greek word chion meaning "snow", and -phile meaning "lover").