Thousands of snow geese making a pit stop in the St. Louis area

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LINCOLN COUNTY • Drivers on Highway 79 along the Mississippi River bottoms might mistake the multitude of geese for leftover snow.

But if they look closely, the white stuff is moving like a wave.

Snow geese are congregating in the St. Louis area in record numbers, driven southeast by heavy snow in northern and western Missouri where they usually stop over on the way back to their nesting grounds in the arctic tundra.

In some cases, as many as 50,000 of them have converged on a single field, local experts said.

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1. I Hope Every One Of Them Makes It Back Home Safely.

Look at what we have done to the planet that we share with them.

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2. And that the tundra continues to refreeze.

Merritt said the geese were on a tight schedule to lay eggs and raise their young before the tundra refreezes.
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