Know
Your Quarry -- Don't Shoot a Swan!
While hunting snow geese be sure of
your target before you shoot.
Don't Shoot a
Swan!
(Source: Waterfowl
Identification in the Central Flyway)
| Swans are much larger
and longer than snow geese. Snow geese have a 3-4 foot wing span
in contrast to the 6-8 foot wing span of swans. The wings of swans
are entirely white and their necks are long. The small-bodied snow
geese have black wing tips and short necks. Juvenile swans may appear
gray as do juvenile snow geese. Careful attention to body size and
observation of black wing tips will help you tell the difference. |
Snow geese are
legal game.
(Source: Waterfowl
Identification in the Central Flyway)
Test your identification
skills using the photos below.
(Holding your
pointer over the photo will reveal the species pictured.)
 
 
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Last Update April
2001
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