Southport, Merseyside, 16th November, 2016. UK Weather. Migratory Pinkfoot, pink footed geese, pink-footed goose at Sunset. The autumn sound of geese calling whilst flying overhead is a regular occurrence as the first 500 Pink-footed geese have made the journey from Iceland to spend the next month at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre. Over the next couple of weeks’ numbers will steadily increase with an estimated 100,000 geese arriving. The geese spend the summer in Iceland and will ultimately spend the winter further south. Credit: MediaWorldImages/Alamy Live News
With subtle gray and buff-pink plumage, a stubby bill, and bubblegum legs, the Pink-footed Goose is a cute bird that lives an extreme lifestyle. They are at home on the windswept tundra and remote cliffs of Iceland, Greenland, and Svalbard, where they breed. On migration and in winter they form huge flocks, thousands strong, in grasslands and crop fields of the United Kingdom and western Europe. They are rare visitors to the eastern United States and Canada, where they tend to fall in with groups of Canada Geese
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