"Lesser snow geese and greater sandhill cranes mingle in November at Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. The sandhills, along with some 30 whooping cranes, migrate from Grays Lake NWR in Idaho. Both whoopers and snow geese have white plumage with black wingtips, so the hunting season demands strict control. Goose hunters must pass a recognition test to shoot on the refuge, but need only a license and duck stamp nearby."

(Text and photograph from the National Geographic book Wildlands for Wildlife, 1982)