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
Today in History
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Languid life on the Lakes
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Lights, camera, Sundance
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Happy International Zebra Day!
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Dunquin Pier, County Kerry, Ireland
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Birds of a feather
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Celebrating 78 years of Everglades National Park
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Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
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Canadian Thanksgiving
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Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China
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Spring equinox
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A yearly sign that spring has sprung
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World Jellyfish Day
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It’s Draw a Bird Day
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Happy holidays!
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Welcome to the drainpipe of the Pacific
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St. Barbaras Cathedral, Kutná Hora, Czechia
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Happy Easter!
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Does this chameleon look a little insecure?
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Siblings that play together…
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World Olive Tree Day
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National Blueberry Day
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Umschreibung by Olafur Eliasson in Munich
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Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire, England
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Headed to the High Country
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Smoking nights in Austria
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National Roller Coaster Day
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International Day of Human Space Flight
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Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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Valentines Day
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Maritime forest in Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia
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