Phinney has been fishing and hunting in this area for years, and the sight of dead birds frozen into the water wasn’t exactly a new one, he tells Outdoor Life. “Usually, those geese would be spread ...

Over 200 snow geese were found dead across two sites in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Jason Minto, The News Journal. Early testing has identified the H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, in some of ...

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Snow geese have been particularly hard-hit by the disease. Partnering with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ...

If you want to see single flocks of 25,000, 40,000, or even twice that, you can do it right here in the Bayou State. In fact, the record high count for the species in Louisiana is 400,000 birds.

Adult snow geese are about 2.5 feet long, range in weight from 3.5 to 7 pounds, and have a wingspan of about 4.5 feet, according to All About Birds.

Snow geese arrive “just in time” to fertilize fields with their droppings, enriching soil before spring planting, he said. Because rice isn’t harvested while the birds live here, ...

Snow geese fly in to join a larger flock in a pasture along Kestrel Lake Road near Lambert Road in the Point Pleasant area of south Sacramento County on Feb. 4, 2025.

The snow geese, whose wingtips look like they were dipped in black ink, arrive in waves – one long, undulating skein of white after another, riding the cold wash of the Arctic winds.

Thousands of snow geese descend on the Oley Valley in Berks County last year. Bird flu caused the death of 200 snow geese in the Lehigh Valley recently, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

These numbers are far below the tens of thousands of snow geese and more than 1,000 swans per day on average that have been observed in the area over the past 20 years. To keep up with this year's ...

Over 200 snow geese found across Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania are suspected to have been killed by the bird flu, and experts ...