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Snow geese prefer ponds, shallow lakes, coastal salt marshes, and streams.
Herbivorous, consuming grasses, sedges, rushes, horsetails, forbs, and willows.
Females will lay 2-6 eggs. The female is responsible for building the nest and as she lays eggs, she will continue to build the nest. She will line the nest with down feathers plucked from her breast.
Found in North America with breeding colonies found in Canada and northern Alaska. Snow Geese migrate into southern United States, and their wild population is not at risk.
Preferring freshwater / estuarine wetlands and flooded farm fields. Nest sites are found on the shores of freshwater lakes.
Omnivorous, eating primarily stems, leaves and roots; however, young trumpeter swans primarily feed on invertebrates.
Females lay up to 9 eggs, once every two days. Trumpeter swans usually mate for life.
Found in western North America, this wild population is not at risk.
During the breeding season, tundra swans are found in the Arctic Circle. Once their young have grown, they migrate to southern lakes an agricultural fields.
Omnivorous, feeding primarily on tubers and roots but can also supplement their diet with shrimp, crayfish, and mollusks.
A female may have up to 6 eggs per breeding season. Tundra swans do not reproduce until they are 4 or 5 years old; not all pairs breed every year.
Found across the north coast of North America during the breeding season, throughout Canada and the United States, the wild population of Tundra Swans is of special concern.