Pink-footed Geese Burscough Lancashire; UK Weather. 23rd Oct, 2019. An estimated 48,800 migrants arrive at dusk to roost at the Martin Mere nature reserve where late closing allows local residents to enjoy the spectacle of returning geese. Pinkies or Pink-footed Goose signal the arrival of winter on the Sefton coast as the huge flocks of migrant pink foot geese arrive from northern climes to overwinter in England. Thousands of “Pinkies” spend the winter months, grazing and foraging on the West Lancashire farmlands during the day and roosting on the Estuary grasslands.

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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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Location: Burscough, 2019
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