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| Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often "blast off" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day. Image ID: 21806 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese in flight. Image ID: 26196 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese in flight, wings are blurred in long time exposure as they are flying. Image ID: 26211 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often "blast off" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day. Image ID: 21800 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 26199 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese at sunrise. Thousands of wintering snow geese take to the sky in predawn light in Bosque del Apache's famous "blast off". The flock can be as large as 20,000 geese or more. Long time exposure creates blurring among the geese. Image ID: 21799 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 21801 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese rest on a still pond in rich orange and yellow sunrise light. These geese have spent their night's rest on the main empoundment and will leave around sunrise to feed in nearby corn fields. Image ID: 21802 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Canada geese on the Yellowstone River. Image ID: 19569 Species: Canada goose, Branta canadensis Location: Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Snow geese resting, on a still pond in early morning light, in groups of several thousands. Image ID: 21808 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow goose bearing neck and leg research ID tags, in flight. Image ID: 26209 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 26229 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Kelp goose eating kelp, chick and adult male showing entirely white plumage. The kelp goose is noted for eating only seaweed, primarily of the genus ulva. It inhabits rocky coastline habitats where it forages for kelp. Image ID: 23752 Species: Kelp goose, Chloephaga hybrida, Chloephaga hybrida malvinarum Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Snow geese in flight, late afternoon light. Image ID: 26226 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese, and one of the "crane pools" in the northern part of Bosque del Apache NWR. Image ID: 21811 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often "blast off" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day. Image ID: 21816 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese blast off. After resting and preening on water, snow geese are startled by a coyote, hawk or just wind and take off en masse by the thousands. As many as 50,000 snow geese are found at Bosque del Apache NWR at times, stopping at the refuge during their winter migration along the Rio Grande River. Image ID: 21817 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 21813 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Snow geese, flying in syncrony through color twilight skies, wings blurred due to long time exposure. Image ID: 21826 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese at sunrise. Thousands of wintering snow geese take to the sky in predawn light in Bosque del Apache's famous "blast off". The flock can be as large as 20,000 geese or more. Long time exposure creates blurring among the geese. Image ID: 21827 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese rest on a still pond in rich orange and yellow sunrise light. These geese have spent their night's rest on the main empoundment and will leave around sunrise to feed in nearby corn fields. Image ID: 21820 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Snow goose in flight, slowing before landing to join a flock of snow geese resting on a pond. Image ID: 21829 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese in flight. Image ID: 21832 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Upland goose, male, walking across grasslands. Males have a white head and breast, females are brown with black-striped wings and yellow feet. Upland geese are 24-29" long and weigh about 7 lbs. Image ID: 23769 Species: Upland goose, Chloephaga picta Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Upland goose, male, beside pond in the interior of Carcass Island near Leopard Beach. Image ID: 24011 Species: Upland goose, Chloephaga picta Location: Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 26203 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 26207 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Snow goose in flight. Image ID: 26228 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Kelp goose chicks, nestled on sand between rocks. The kelp goose is noted for eating only seaweed, primarily of the genus ulva. It inhabits rocky coastline habitats where it forages for kelp. Image ID: 23753 Species: Kelp goose, Chloephaga hybrida, Chloephaga hybrida malvinarum Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Snow geese landing on water. Image ID: 19990 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA |
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