
Tumbling.

Tumbling.

Las Palomas Church, near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Snow geese (Anser caerulescens), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.
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Snow geese (Anser caerulescens) and Ross’s geese (Anser rossii), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. The Ross’s are the smaller birds. They also lack the black grin patch found on a snow goose’s lower bill.
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Snow geese (Anser caerulescens), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.
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Snow geese (Anser caerulescens), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. The darker geese in this photo are blue morph snow geese, though there are a few Ross’s geese (Anser rossii) in the melange.
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Snow geese (Anser caerulescens), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.
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Snow geese (Anser caerulescens), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.
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Northern shoveler with stink eye.
Spatula clypeata at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.

Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus), at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.