TROY, Mo. (AP) - Snow geese have been turning up in eastern Missouri in record numbers recently.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/WBgXSQ ) that the snow geese have apparently been driven southeast to the St. Louis area by heavy snow in northern and western Missouri where they usually stop over on the way back to their nesting grounds in the Arctic.
Local experts estimate that in some cases as many as 50,000 of them have converged on a single field.
Wildlife biologist Eric Merritt says however that the influx won't last much longer. Merritt says the geese will be heading north again soon.