Thanks for getting on that Nebraska Pink-footed, Alec Ross Silcock had emailed me about that bird. Interestingly, it was with a flock of Snow Geese that included birds banded (in molt) in Queen Maud Gulf (aka Gulf of Queen Maud) in Nunavut. The interesting thing in this is that this location (Queen Maud Gulf) is not far, at all, from the Pink-footeds Greenland breeding areas. A bird going west in molt migration rather than east (geese tend to scatter far and wide to molt) could very easily wind up at Queen Maud Gulf. Without fellow Pink-footeds around, then migrate south with the local Snow Geese, or Richardson's Cacklers.
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