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‘The noise rang in my head for hours’: Incredible photos of 1.3million geese taking off on their migration home

By United Earth · On September 7th, 2011

Snow Goose in mid flight

On the wing: The snow geese travel at nearly 40 miles per hour on their journey to their summer breeding grounds in central Canada


By Staff
DAILY MAIL (UK)
September 3, 2011

These amazing images show a landscape dominated by a huge gathering of snow geese, as 1.3million of them descend on a single wildlife park.
There are so many geese they appear to block out the sun and cover the ground completely. And photographer Mike Hollingshead said the noise the birds made was so loud that it rang in his ears for hours.

Squaw Creek is a convenient stopping point on the 2,500-mile Central Flyway migration route, which takes the birds 70 hours in total.

Mike, 35, from Blair, Nebraska, quit his job at a factory in 2004 to take up storm chasing professionally, but takes time out each spring to capture the geese’s majestic migration.[snip]

Snow geese spend the winter months in the warmer climes of the Gulf of Mexico, before migrating back to their natural breeding grounds in the summer.
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