Rebecca Dzombak

01.24.2023

Rebecca Dzombak

Lauren Owens Lambert

Rebecca Dzombak is a freelance science writer and editor in Washington state, covering animals, ecosystems, and conservation. Her work appears in National Geographic, The New York Times, Scientific American and other outlets. She holds a Ph.D. in Earth and environmental science.

Faces stained from digging in mud, snow geese pause to take measure of their surroundings before returning to their feast. The gray birds are juveniles, the white birds with black wings are adults. Photography by Nancy Crowell Washington’s Runaway Snow Geese 01.24.2023 Article - Mae West said too much of a good thing is wonderful. But she’d never seen the beautiful, marauding snow geese that swoop in each fall to take over Washington State’s Skagit Valley.

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