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This was the original Sacramento NWR. From the 1940s onward, additional refuges were created, so that the Sacramento NWR Complex now includes the following refuges, located between 80 and 145 kilometres (50 and 90 mi) north of the city of Sacramento: Snow geese at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
The California Fish and Wildlife is monitoring cases throughout the state.
Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Canada goose American wigeon. The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans.These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge is one of six refuges in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex located in the Sacramento Valley of north-central California. [2] The refuge is located in Colusa County. It is around 70 miles (110 km) north of metropolitan Sacramento.
The dead birds were transported to the Wildlife Heath Lab in Rancho Cordova by a Sacramento resident who found them at William Land Regional Park. A test on three geese last week came back ...
Snow geese have been swarming into the 7,500-acre Missouri refuge in recent weeks, photos shared on the refuge’s Facebook show. Snow geese stop at the refuge as they migrate north for spring.
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.
Sacramento meteorologist Idamis Shoemaker said that a weak weather system will bring 1/2 to 1 inch of rain in the valley and 1-2 inches of mountain snow along both the Interstate 80 and Highway 50 ...