Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Thousands of snow geese swirled over Lake McGregor in southern Alberta on March 27.This video, captured by Leanne Graham, shows the flock of migrating birds moving as a wave over a patch of ...
Snow geese frequently travel and feed alongside greater white-fronted geese; in contrast, the two tend to avoid travelling and feeding alongside Canada geese, which are often heavier birds. [citation needed] The population of greater snow geese was in decline at the beginning of the 20th century, but has now recovered to sustainable levels.
“Snow geese are vocal on the ground, on the water and in the air. Their repetitive, single honking call would give a flock of tundra swan stiff competition for noisiest waterfowl,” the U.S ...
Flight of the Snow Geese is a nature documentary from the Survival series. [1] [2] External links. The Flight of the Snow Geese WildFilmHistory page; References
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gás and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
Greater_Snow_Geese.ogv (Ogg Theora video file, length 11 s, 640 × 480 pixels, 5.67 Mbps, file size: 7.23 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The snow goose (Anser caerulescens) is a North American species of goose. Snow Goose or The Snow Goose may also refer to: The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk, a novella by Paul Gallico; The Snow Goose, a 1971 film based on the novella by Paul Gallico; The Snow Goose, an album by the band Camel
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. Other differences from the snow goose are that the bill is smaller in proportion to its body and lacks "black lips". Like snow geese, Ross's geese may exhibit a darker "blue" phase or morph ...