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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 snow goose is the sister species to Ross's goose (Anser rossii). [10] Two subspecies are recognised: [8] [11] A. c. caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758) – lesser snow goose – breeds in northeast Siberia, north Alaska and northwest Canada, winters in south USA, north Mexico and Japan
In total, across the Merced County refuges and including state wildlife areas and public lands, about 1½ million ducks and geese will make the trip to spend the winter. “It’s really special ...
The Sacramento Valley is the epicenter of wildlife migration because there’s water and food in this area, Tira said. Many geese, mallards and other migratory waterfowl flock to the rich rice ...
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 Butte Sink typically supports wintering populations of over 300,000 ducks and 100,000 geese. As 95 percent of wetlands of the Central Valley have been lost over the last 100 years, waterfowl have become increasingly dependent on the remaining wetlands within the Sacramento Valley.
Large flocks of northern shovelers, mallards, gadwalls, wigeons, green-winged teal, cinnamon teal, northern pintails, ring-billed ducks, canvasbacks, ruddy ducks, snow geese, Ross's geese, and greater white-fronted geese swarm over the mosaic of seasonal, and permanent wetlands that comprise a quarter of the refuge. Waterfowl generally remain ...
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 ...