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There are two different kinds of Snow Geese: The Greater Snow Goose - Anser caerulescens atlantica and the Lesser Snow Goose - Anser caerulescens caerulescens. The big family of geese is called "Anatidae" ... Lesser Snow Geese change colors depending on which color will help them camouflage at different times of the year...
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www.thewildones.org/SFC/Seana/rebecca.html
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FEATURED SPECIES - LESSER SNOW GEESE; FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE ... On far off Wrangel Island, off the northern coast of Russia s Siberia, in a good weather year, from 60 to 100 thousand Lesser Snow Geese (Anser caerulescens) arrive to begin their cycle of nesting and brood rearing.
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www.greatnorthern.net/~dye/snow-geese.htm
www.greatnorthern.net/~dye/snow-geese.htm
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Description: Lesser snow geese have two color phases: a dark (blue) plumage and a white (snow) plumage. The two color phases are variations within the same race and do not indicate separate races. The sexes are similar in appearance in both phases, however, the female is often smaller.
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www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowlGallery/62/index.html
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Most of the migrating white geese that are seen over southern Canada west of Quebec are Lesser Snow Geese, although smaller white geese, Ross’ Geese, mingle with the prairie flocks. Migrating white geese seen in southern Quebec are more likely to be Greater Snow Geese;
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www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=51
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New Mexico and northern Mexico are the winter home for a population of lesser snow goose (Chen c. caerulescens) that nests in the western Canadian Arctic. Snow geese breed from late May to mid August, but they leave these areas and spend more than half the year on their migration to-and-from warmer wintering areas.
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www.werc.usgs.gov/sfbe/snowgoose.html
www.werc.usgs.gov/sfbe/snowgoose.html
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Extensive grubbing turns feeding swards into fields of depressions that begin filling with water ... next slide | previous slide | slide show opening ... beginnings of goose ponds...
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research.amnh.org/users/rfr/hbp/degradation/ben02.html
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High populations of lesser snow geese are directly linked to destruction at the local (site specific) level. The problems are spreading geographically and in terms of ecosystem parts that are affected. This slide show is an introduction to the situation in Southern Hudson Bay region as it has been documented so far.
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research.amnh.org/~rfr/hbp/kenintro.html
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A relatively large population of Lesser Snow Geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) nests on Wrangel Island, Russia, north of the Arctic Circle. These geese spend the winter (October - April) in North America.
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www.ecoinfo.ec.gc.ca/env_ind/region/snowgeese/snowgeese...
www.ecoinfo.ec.gc.ca/env_ind/region/snowgeese/snowgeese_e.cfm
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When bears switch to the tundra in some areas, they may enter the nesting grounds of snow geese. Goose eggs and developing embryos are a highly nutritious source of food to opportunistic foragers. Although geese populations were in decline in the early 1900s, the population rebounded and expanded.
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www.amnh.org/science/papers/polar_bears.php
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