If you want to see single flocks of 25,000, 40,000, or even twice that, you can do it right here in the Bayou State. In fact, the record high count for the species in Louisiana is 400,000 birds.

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Snow geese fly in to join a larger flock in a pasture along Kestrel Lake Road near Lambert Road in the Point Pleasant area of south Sacramento County on Feb. 4, 2025.

The snow geese hordes that soon will be seen in Pennsylvania are on their way north to the arctic and subarctic, where they will breed during the coming spring and summer, ...

Only 12 snow geese were spotted in the region during the 1999 count, she said. By 2005, the number ballooned to 51,700.. But this year, birders saw an all-time high, 226,252 snow geese.

Hundreds of snow geese take off all at once. The birds migrate from the Arctic to the Mid-Atlantic at this time of year. They are a fascinating sight but also a concern because of their eating habits.

According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area staff, the number of snow geese has fallen from 79,000 reported on Jan. 31 to 52,000 on Feb. 7.

In 2021, snow geese migration peaked from March 5 to 7 with upward of 120,000 snow geese, and 2,500 tundra swans and Canada geese at Middle Creek, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

As the world shut down and we locked ourselves in our homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, snow geese in Canada took the opportunity to gorge themselves on corn crops.

While numbers of snow geese typically decrease when wintry weather hits, as of Sunday afternoon, there were about 75,000 out. Earlier in the weekend, Middle Creek saw around 105,000 geese.

STEVENS, Pa. — Every year, hundreds of thousands of snow geese use Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area as a rest stop as they migrate back north to their breeding grounds.

Snow geese began to arrive at Middle Creek in the mid-1990s. "We're not anywhere close to peak right now," Ferreri said. "We're getting there but we probably won't see peak until mid-February or ...