[Tweeters] newest Audubon magazine snow goose article

[Martha Jordan via Tweeters]

For those who are members of National Audubon, you likely have the newest
issue of the magazine in hand.  It has a very informative article:  The
Great North American Goose Chase.  It is about snow geese that breed in an
area of northern Alaska (North Slope) and east across the Canadian western
arctic (not the mid-Continent population). Well done article, except for
one glaring error regarding Washington State's wintering snow geese.  This
error only applies to Washington State.
     Recent research has shown that the snow geese that winter in the
Skagit Valley (and other areas of western WA) breed on Wrangel Island,
north of Siberia: Russia. They are not the Western Arctic population. In
eastern WA, the vast majority of those snow geese are also from Wrangel
Island. A small percentage are Western Arctic population.
    So where do most of these geese go:  the rest of the article is
accurate, and you can always plan a trip to Chico, California for the Jan
22-23, 2026 Snow Goose Festival (1 million snow geese along with other
waterfowl), a spectacular sight.

 Even the Cornell Lab All About Birds website lacks any information on
differentiating the Lesser Snow Goose from the Greater Snow Goose
(sub-species)  Both are lumped into: snow geese.  Sad to see this
educational opportunity missed.
    If you want more information on snow geese, contact me off-list.
mj.cygnus at gmail.com

Martha Jordan
Everett, WA
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