Blue geese find a refuge
For many years one of the mysteries of ornithology was the whereabouts of the breeding grounds of the great flocks of blue geese that wintered every year in Louisiana and migrated north each spring, disappearing after they passed Hudson’s Bay.
In 1926 J. Dewey Soper confirmed an earlier theory that suggested the blue geese were in fact just a colour phase of the white lesser snow goose, when he discovered their breeding grounds on Baffin Island. Now this invaluable population of dimorphic birds has been protected by Canadian law. This may help us to discover…
