Arctic Snow Geese Breeding Inventory
The population explosion of snow geese over the past few decades has had a negative impact on the fragile arctic breeding grounds used by the geese and many other migratory bird species. To assess the habitat degradation in these areas, the FWS acquired over 10,000 frames of high-resolution, digital, true color photographs over the snow geese breeding colonies of Hudson Bay and South Hampton Island during June 2014. A wildlife biologist and remote sensing specialist converted the raw imagery to a tiff image format for analysis.