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Snow Goose

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Snow Goose Range Map

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Range Map
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Range Map for Snow Goose

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Migration

Medium-distance migrant. All populations migrate, making long flights broken up by long stopovers in staging areas. They fly quickly and at high altitudes in narrow flight lanes, heading more or less due south from the breeding grounds to a wintering site at roughly the same longitude. Some Snow Geese that winter in western North America breed in Siberia, and some that winter along the Atlantic coast breed in Greenland.

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