Every traveler needs a place to rest from time to time. In the case of the snow goose, that place needs to be very large. Snow geese travel in flocks of hundreds, sometimes thousands, as they travel north to their springtime breeding grounds in the Arctic tundra. They stop along the way to rest and forage, relying on places like Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York, where our homepage image was photographed. World Migratory Bird Day, recognized on May 12, highlights the need to protect habitat for winged travelers like these.
It’s World Migratory Bird Day
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Feast of the Donkey
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National Park Service anniversary
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Giving Tuesday
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Pi Day
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Once upon a time there was a bridge…
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Easter
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The mountaintop of toppled gods
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Festivus
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Manatee Awareness Month
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Ancient theater of Epidaurus, Greece
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Nazaré Lighthouse
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Atlantic puffin, Iceland