It’s that time of year again, as pink and red Valentine’s line the aisles of the stores, New Year’s resolutions begin to unravel, and geese begin their annual migration across the country. Do you want to see this crazy phenomenon for yourself? Lucky for you, Coloradans have a front-row seat to the show as hundreds of thousands of snow geese make their way back north:

Beginning now and lasting through late spring is the annual migration of snow geese, where hundreds of thousands of these white-with-black-tipped-winged birds take to the sky and travel north. 
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Taking place every year, the snow geese travel south to Mexico or Texas during the fall and make their return come mid-winter in an attempt to reach their breeding grounds.
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While the snow goose population is thought to be near 6 million, only a few hundred thousand make their return via Colorado and the midwest, thanks to various waterfowl flyways that include the Pacific, Central, Mississippi, and Atlantic. 
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Why do they all take a different route to get home? It is due to different nest locations, most of which are in either Canada, Alaska, or Greenland (shown in blue).
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In terms of the hundreds of thousands of snow geese that fly over the Centennial State, home is in Canada, which is why they take the Central Flyway over Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. 
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If you enjoy the annual snow geese migration and want to learn more about these birds and their springtime travel, be sure to like the High Plains Snow Goose Festival on Facebook.
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