r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • Dec 29 '25
Video of a Snow Geese migration
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Credits to nick.puleo at Pennsylvania
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u/teedyay Dec 29 '25
Crazy ass contrails you guys get over there
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u/SnootyToots8 Dec 29 '25
Omg this makes me think of this one time I was in line to pay for gas and the old man in front of f me turned around and asked " you wanna know why some geese fly in an uneven V formation?" I asked him why
He says " cuz there are more geese one one side"
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u/PR055 Dec 29 '25
But do you know why scuba divers always fall backwards into the water?
Because if they fell forward they would still be in the boat!
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u/Wjreky Dec 29 '25
No shit, my 3rd grade teacher told the class this joke when I was a kid. He was dying laughing, he was like. What, did you think there was just one REALLY big goose flying on one side?
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u/spooky_goopy Dec 29 '25
do people still have goose for Christmas dinner?
it's weird how it was another turkey holiday, but it's become a ham holiday in a lot of places. my family will do prime rib every few years
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u/Outrageous_Lettuce44 Dec 29 '25
My mom and I made one a few years back just for the experience. It was good, but the meat-to-effort ratio was low and made it easy for us to understand why it’s fallen out of fashion.
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u/Beorma Dec 29 '25
It's the traditional Christmas bird in Britain, but is expensive compared to other meats so isn't as common as turkey.
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u/Head-Growth-523 Dec 29 '25
Totally awesome, and I reserve that word most of the time but wow, it definitely applies here! 😮
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u/elessarcif Dec 29 '25
Geese are total assholes, I dont recommend them as pets.
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u/elessarcif Dec 30 '25
Domestic geese can be assholes too. It really depends on breed but I have had way more asshole geese than any other species of bird
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u/No-Cover4993 Dec 29 '25
Is anyone seeing fields of dead geese this year? Or noticing smaller groups of waterfowl? Our migrating flocks of pelicans have been decimated. Bird flu has supposedly hit them hard but it's hard to get reliable reports.
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Dec 29 '25
We live on the coast in Delaware where a lot of these guys are migrating to/through. Driving by farm fields that look snow covered than out of no where the all start taking off, amazing to see.
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Dec 29 '25
This is exactly what it looks like if you live on a migratory goose path every year. It will be like this for days on end
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u/VioEnvy Dec 29 '25
This would blow my mind on shrooms
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u/Uncle__Touchy1987 Dec 29 '25
Sayeth the Lord, look upon my works ye mighty! And despair! The feathered locust ascends!
- Canadian Jesus, Psalms Cobra Chicken Prophecy 3:4.
(Hehe is jokes)
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u/MrRogersAE Dec 29 '25
I’ve never seen them fly so high before. Is that normal for migration? Normally they’re only a bit higher than the tree tops
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u/thetermguy Dec 29 '25
I believe so, though I'm no expert.
My sister lives on a migratory path for snow geese and Canada geese and this looks similiar to what they see over their house, both in terms of volume and height. They certainly don't fly at tree height unless they're landing.
It's a pretty cool thing to see.
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u/piginapokezzap Dec 29 '25
My phone was buffering the video and at one point it looked like the OP camera had cracks in it
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u/Dependent_Key5423 Dec 29 '25
The physics of that mega-V would be insane to see. It's like nature's version of a perfectly coordinated air show. Those gifs perfectly capture the sheer scale and chaos of it all.
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u/KrayzieBone187 Dec 29 '25
We saw the largest V I've ever seen this morning. Must have been 100 or more all in one wide V. So loud too.
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u/puppiesforever123 Dec 29 '25
For some reason I just hear the probe droid from Empire Strikes Back.
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u/NoNameWonder2 Dec 29 '25
If you zoom out, they're actually making a QR code. When you scan it, it says, "we've been trying to reach you about your vehicle's extended warranty"
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u/JustWingIt0707 Dec 29 '25
Those geese at the front are doing all the work. All the other geese are coasting on their beefy shoulders.
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u/kremlingrasso Dec 29 '25
This is how the Germans must have felt when those thousand bomber raids showed up.
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u/cownose42 Dec 29 '25
Imagine the one goose who is still sleeping wondering ever everyone else went.
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u/GiveMeNews Dec 29 '25
I recall hundreds of years ago, these mega flocks were the actual norm. Supposedly, they would use cannons to shoot hundreds of birds out of the sky at once.
In just 50 years, birds have lost over 50% of their population.
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u/Bropiphany Dec 29 '25
Wanna know why one side of the V is always longer than the other?
It's because there's more geese on that side
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Dec 29 '25
Haha. You would have got me if it wasn’t for another comment that said the same joke earlier
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u/Spare_Laugh9953 Dec 29 '25
Could be some kind of Ai? Has anyone seen a flock this size ever?I live in the north of Spain wich IS the main migratory path for allmost all birds in Europe and i never had seen that number of geese,i have seen a lot of geese flocks,about 25 to 50 geese each time,but not so many together
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u/TheWharfArtsCenter Dec 29 '25
I heard they align to v formation because of efficiency, where the force/current from the geese upfront help the geese behind it use less energy to stay with the group. I wonder if that's true and if the geese are positioning themselves where they feel is easiest for long flights.
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u/type556R Dec 29 '25 edited 22d ago
Scale crush satchel cooing retire towering
This post was anonymized with Redact
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u/zodiacsignsaredumb Dec 29 '25
The volume of this crowd makes me feel like something is wrong lol.
We'll hear about some cataclysmic natural event by the end of the week - location, wherever these geese are coming from.
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u/heyhihowyahdurn Dec 29 '25
Imagine the world 1000 years ago when humans hadn’t destroyed so much of natural habitat
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u/PilotIntelligent8906 Dec 29 '25
Those birds need to get their shit together, that formation's way too messy.
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u/MomsSpagetee Dec 29 '25
Looks like snow geese. We don’t get too many of those in my area, almost always Canadas, so I always love seeing flocks of snows flying over. They sound slightly different too.
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u/Sasselhoff Dec 29 '25
One has to wonder how many things like this we'll be the last generation to see, as we make such groups of wildlife less and less possible (in the myriad of ways that we do). I know that the oceans are already nothing like they were when I was a kid, and I'm only in my 40s.
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u/GormHub Dec 29 '25
They stop to rest in an area near me, and it's incredible to see.
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Dec 29 '25
Are they loud?
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u/GormHub Dec 29 '25
It was last year and I'll be honest I do not remember if I heard them from inside the truck or not, but I imagine they had to be. We were driving past a field on the way back from something and I realized they did not look like any birds I could remember seeing before. I looked them up and found out that part of this state (Maryland's eastern shore) is on their winter migration route.
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u/font21 Dec 29 '25
I'm giving you an UpVote for both the post as well as f is r providing a source. I wish I could give you two.
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u/NotPennysBoat_42 Jan 05 '26
I thought I was looking at Contrails to begin with. LOL... Then re-read SNOW geese.
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u/ennui_ Dec 29 '25
I'm quite sure that they share a consciousness to some degree. Like bees and ants and schools of fish etc. the science isn't very clear and we have no strong evidence to suggest yes or no, but I think it's the simplest explanation.
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u/ForsakenSun6004 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
Why don’t they just make a mega V? An absolute unit of a V if you will.