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This is a stocky grey-brown bird about 70 centimetres (28 in) long with a slightly paler head and upper neck. It has a small black bill and black legs. A chunky mid-sized goose. Standing bird looks fairly dull, gray and dirty white, sometimes showing blue along the edge of the wing. [5] In flight, this species shows a pale blue forewing.
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.
High-speed wings Common swift: Apus apus: Apodidae [13] 111.6 km/h 69.3 mph [3] 166 km/h 103 mph High-speed wings Eurasian hobby: Falco subbuteo: Falconidae [14] 159 km/h 99 mph Can sometimes outfly the swift as it eats them and catches them on the wing. Frigatebird: Fregata: Fregatidae [15] 153 km/h 95 mph Slow gliding/soaring high aspect ...
The blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) is a species of bird in the duck, goose, and swan family Anatidae. One of the smaller members of the dabbling duck group, it occurs in North America , where it breeds from southern Alaska to Nova Scotia , and south to northern Texas . [ 2 ]
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A Canada goose tucking its bill under its wing. Anas: pintails, mallards, etc. (40–50 living species, 3 extinct) Chendytes, diving-geese (extinct c. 450–250 BCE, A basal member of the dabbling duck clade [16]) Spatula, shovelers; Mareca, wigeons and gadwalls; Lophonetta, crested duck; Speculanas, bronze-winged duck; Amazonetta, Brazilian teal
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, though this is extremely rare (<0.01% of adult birds). [2]
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