snow geese

Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge

These pictures – taken by Mike Hollingshead in Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri – show one of nature's most amazing displays as more than a million snow geese stop for a rest during their annual migration. Every autumn the snow geese head from their main breeding grounds in central Canada to their wintering grounds in the Gulf of Mexico. The noisy birds migrate in unusually large flocks of 100 to 1,000 that are made up of many family groups.

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