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| | Snow Goose |
 | | Snow Goose: Four to eight white eggs are laid in a nest sparsely lined with down on the tundra. |
 | | Snow Goose: Snow geese feed primarily on emergent marsh vegetation. Their diet consists of saltgrass, wild millet, spikerush, feathergrass, panic grass, seashore paspalum, delta duckpotato, bulrush, cordgrass, cattail, ryegrass, and wild rice. Rice is a very important food on wintering grounds in Texas and Louisiana along with smartweed, dropseed, bluestem, and fescue. |
 | | Snow Goose: The white morph of the Snow Goose is similar to widely-escaped domesticated barnyard goose, but the Snow Goose has fl primaries and a distinctive bill pattern. |
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