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Snow Goose - White Phase
[Chen caerulescens ??]
[Length 28 (Lesser) to 31 (Greater) in. Wingspan 53 (Lesser) to 56 (Greater) in.]
Snow Geese breed in the high Arctic coastal regions of northern Alaska and northern Canada.
They winter along the east coast of the US from Delaware to the Carolinas, central California, southern Arizona and New Mexico, and the Gulf coasts of Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.
These Snow Geese were photographed coming in for a landing at Brigantine NWR, New Jersey, where they stop on their way south each fall.
Photo taken with a 300mm f4.5 Nikkor ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film.
(Date: December 1982)
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