Bird 3

These birds have two forms (morphs). They have a common white form and a rarer blue form. The white form is normally all white except for black wing tips. The blue form has a white head and upper neck with a dark blue-gray body. They are from 25 to 30 inches long. Immature snow goose are dirty white or brownish. They eat aquatic plants, grains, roots, Leaves of grasses, sedges, willows and other plants. They are the prey of arctic foxes and wolves, gulls, jaegers, ravens, gyrfalcons, and eagles. They weigh 4.5 to 6.0 pounds. Their wingspan is 53 from 65 inches. Their young are called goslings.