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snow goose

noun

  1. a white North American wild goose, previously classified as the species Chen hyperborea but now considered the light color phase of the blue goose, C. caerulescens.


snow goose

noun

  1. a North American goose, Anser hyperboreus (or Chen hyperborea or A. caerulescens ), having a white plumage with black wing tips
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Origin of snow goose1

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75
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A flock of snow geese passed overhead, their silver wings gleaming against a blue sky.

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She is at work on a second memoir featuring migratory trumpeter swans that winter in Skagit with squawking snow geese and dabbling ducks.

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From owls on the hunt to fields full of swans and snow geese winter is the time to go watch birds in Skagit County.

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The agency’s employees have retrieved more than 700 dead birds of several species, but primarily young snow geese, from the area.

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Denahy hopes tarantulas give La Junta the same economic boost that snow geese, sandhill cranes, mountain plovers, rutting elk and even watermelons have given other communities.

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