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  • File: Barnacle Geese

    This pair of Scandinavian regulars are extremely scarce. They showed up in Chatham-Miramichi on December 14. Carol B. and I saw them on the 15th in a farmer's pasture with approximately 50 Canada Geese almost in Loggieville, a few hundred yards from the Miramichi River, a world famous salmon river...
  • File: Barnacle Goose

    It was too windy to go birding by the water so we decided not to go. I saw a post on one of the listservers I subscribe to that there was a Barnacle Goose at Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York. We got in the car and drove over to the park. We added a life bird and reported the banded bird. The bander and...
  • File: Barnacle Goose

    A rare visitor to New Brunswick from Europe, this Barnacle Goose showed up in Miramichi, New Brunswick, late in the fall and after a few days was on its way west.
  • File: Barnacle Goose with Canada Geese

    It was a rare site to one lone Barnacle Goose that found its way to Massachusetts on November 8, 2011, with a group of about 350 Canada Geese. After watching the flock for about an hour, they began to honk. Thinking they might move on, I focused on the Barnacle Goose and photographed him as they all...