The Greater Snow Goose is one of the two most abundant goose species in North America.
The Greater Snow Geese spend the colder seasons in southern coastal marshes, bays, wet grasslands, and fields along the U.S. Atlantic coast from New Jersey to North Carolina.
Their diet is entirely vegetarian, consisting of grasses and grains, grazed from damp soils or even shallow water. At winter's end, snow geese fly north to their breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra, in the northern and eastern parts of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and northwestern Greenland.