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Greater snow geese are white, except for black feathers at the wing tips. Those who don’t believe the story try online Orbitz coupon codes and travel to Nunavut, Canada and watch those geese walking along the banks. Their feet are pinkish, the narrow bill has cutting edges allowing to get the roots of plants on muddy banks. These cutting edges resemble a "smile" on each side of the bill. As geese permanently dig in the mud looking for the food their head is often becomes orange from the traces of iron in the clay. Young geese have gray feather with white patterns. Their feet and bills are a dark jade. During their first winter juvenile geese gradually lose their gray feathers, which are replaced by white plumage. The wingspan of an adult greater snow goose can reach more than 1.5 meters. Adult males weigh up to 3.5 kg; females are a little lighter. The greater snow goose appears in two forms. Most greater snow geese are called light morphs: they are white. Dark morphs, or blue geese have blue-gray feathers. Fewer than 4 percent of greater snow geese are of this blue form. The white feather of greater snow geese contrasts with backgrounds making it easy to detect gaggles at great distances and to conduct monitoring over large areas. The bright plumage also allows to use aerial photography to measure flock size. Various types of aerial overlooks were made on wintering flocks of greater snow geese in the United States and on staging flocks in spring and fall in the St.Lawrence valley, Québec. Large flocks of snow geese can usually be found in open water at Audubon National Wildlife Refuge on November. Greater snow geese come to National Wildlife Refuge in the winter time. In late October greater snow geese move from their Arctic breeding grounds to their wintering grounds at Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge or the Deleware Bayshore. Snow geese are a target of big-game hunters. The hunting of snow geese is not allowed on Lake Mattamuskeet, but is allowed at Currituck Banks and Bodie Island. Most birds are killed in private fields with the permission of landowners. Some hunters kill snow geese using decoys, mainly through the efforts of guides around Pungo National Wildlife Refuge. It is difficult for most hunters to distinguish between the greater and lesser snow geese on the wing. The snow goose season lasts 10 days in October and then from mid-November till March, 10.