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Greater White-fronted Goose and Cackling Goose at Whitby Harbour |
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Adult
Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons
frontalis) at Whitby Harbour
on 12 February 2012. |
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Greater White-fronted
Geese breed in North America on the tundra from the west side of Hudson Bay to
western Alaska. The population that breeds closest to Ontario
winters in the Mississippi Valley and along the west Gulf Coast. |
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Cackling Goose at Whitby
Harbour on 12 February 2012 |
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Both
birds were difficult to pick out among the hundreds of Canada Geese
viewed from the west side of Whitby Harbour. |
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Link to
Aging Two
Greater White-fronted Geese at Whitby on 19 February 2012 |
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Link to flight photo
by Janice Melendez of the
above adult Greater White-fronted Goose on 14 February 2012 |
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