tags: Snow Geese, Chen caerulescens, Skagit Flats, Fir Island, Seattle, streaming video
This streaming video, by Seattle birder, Doug Plummer, documents the hundreds of thousands of migratory Snow Geese, Chen caerulescens, who winter on the Skagit Flats, a floodplain that is located north of my home, Seattle [1:39]
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PZ Myers at Pharyngula examines this question in an entirely different case. This is the case of 14 year old Jehovah Witness Dennis Linberg.
So this young man, Dennis Lindberg, refused a blood transfusion and died.
I'm no Dr. Doolittle, but I think that last round of honks translates as, "Last one on the ground is a dumb ol' duck!"
That's a great video! A similar snow goose spectacular occurs annually at sites on the Mid-Atlantic coast, e.g. Blackwater NWR on Maryland's eastern shore. Hundreds of thousands of big, white, noisy birds taking flight makes quite an impression!
Fantastic! There was a video of Snow Geese on Cayuga Lake, NY, shot in March, 2004. The estimated size of that flock was 3,000,000. Yes, 3 million. I don't know if it's available online or not.