WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Chen caerulescens | Snow Goose 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Snow geese breed in the Arctic tundra region of North America, including
the Arctic archipelago, and winter in the southern United States
(primarily Texas and Louisiana) and Mexico.  They also winter along the
Atlantic seaboard from Virginia south to North Carolina, and in
California, New Mexico, and Arizona [16].  In recent years snow geese
have expanded their wintering range into Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas,
presumably due to the amount of agricultural land [1].  Occasionally
snow geese are found in Hawaii [16].  Only those areas where snow geese
winter and breed have been included in the States list , although they
are temporarily found in all states along the Atlantic, Central, and
Pacific Flyways during migration from August through November and
February through March [15,16].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
HI
    
IA
    
KS
    
MO
    
MT
 

    
NE
    
NJ
    
NM
    
NC
    
OK
    
OR
    
TX
    
VA
    
WA
 





    
MB
    
NT
    
ON
    
PQ
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Snow geese inhabit tundra communities and wetlands composed of cattail
(Typha spp.), reed (Phragmites spp.), bulrush (Scirpus spp.), sedge
(Carex spp.), panic grass (Panicum spp.), saltgrass (Distichlis spp.),
cordgrass (Spartina spp.), and wildrice (Zizaniopsis spp.) [13].
 


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Chen caerulescens | Snow Goose