The Audubon Great Plains website describes the spring experience as “a birder’s dream” that includes 3 million-6 million snow geese, 4 million mallards (50% of the mid-continent population ...

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The friendship between the Black Henrys and the White Henrys was done. My parents never understood that they had played a role in a dramatic social movement, never even heard of the Great Migration.

From what was once estimated to be a grim population of around 3,000 snow geese in the early 1900s, there are now more than 15 million of the white geese in North America.

“Snow geese and tundra swans begin their migration when the first new plant shoots emerge in spring. At Middle Creek, this can occur as early as January but typically sometime in February or March.

Highly pathogenic avian flu is on the rise among cackling geese. And at Staats Lake in Keizer, around 400 geese have been reported dead in the past two weeks from aspergillosis, a fungal infection.

This phenomenon has been called reverse migration because many Black people are returning to a region their forebears left from the 1910s to the 1970s. Between 2015 and 2020, ...