Texas Fauna Project

Lesser Snow Goose

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Kirby Brown, a conservation outreach biologist for the Ducks Unlimited, has earlier worked in wildlife management at Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Texas Wildlife Association, and has helped found and lead the Lower Colorado River Basin Coalition. Here he explains how irrigation water cutoffs during the drought of 2011-15, together with a long-term, multi-factor decline in rice cultivation, accelerated the move of snow geese, as well as white-fronted geese, out of Texas, and towards Arkansas.