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Bo Zarts

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2. Happy New Year (I hope)!

Reply to rampartd (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 1, 2025, 05:32 PM

Jan 2025

Actually, I have a hard time distinguishing Ross geese and Snows unless they are side by side (the Ross geese are sometimes called "pint-sized" Snow geese). But I do see them closeby each other on the water, and they do nest together, so I assume that they at least liftoff together.

Hybridization has been estimated by ornithologists at 4.7% of a sample of around 12,000 Ross's and Snow Geese in a study conducted several decades ago. So I guess that geese that liftoff together .. oh well, you know .. flock together.

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