Edwin B. Forsythe Refuge: the months its manager gives for snow geese and the peak, the 2027 order suspension and directions to it.
The months and peaks are the site manager’s own, quoted and linked below with the day they were read.
October Snow geese begin to arrive in refuge wetlands.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
Mid-November Peak snow goose and Atlantic brantU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
A pin takes a color only in the months the refuge or agency that runs it gives for snow geese. The shaded grid is where people have logged a verified snow or Ross’s goose on iNaturalist in October, in any year, brighter where more have been logged; it maps reports, so it thickens where observers stand.
ArrivingNew Jersey, October
October is snow goose season at Edwin B. Forsythe Refuge, peaking in November and December.
In fall, huge flocks of ducks and snow geese arrive, and Forsythe holds the largest concentrations of wintering American Black Duck and Brant on the Atlantic coast.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
More reports come in January than in any other month. The bars combine every year on record; the twelve month figure runs from October 14, 2025.
121 research grade snow and Ross’s goose reports from New Jersey in the twelve months to October 14, 2026.
Reading this month’s reports from iNaturalist.
The spring conservation order is suspended for 2027.
The Conservation Order has been suspended for 2027 after agreement from the eight participating hunt states, Quebec and Ontario.Maryland Department of Natural Resources, read October 13, 2026. Read it at the source
The states it covers, in the notice’s words: “As of 2026, eight states in the Atlantic Flyway held the Conservation Order including Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.”
Check the state’s own regulations before you go: permits, zones and dates are the agency’s to set.
Every fact about New Jersey’s snow geese links to the refuge, agency or festival page it comes from, read on October 13, 2026. Tour routes and viewing areas close for weather, hunts and work, so check the site’s own page before you drive. Report tallies are iNaturalist research grade records of snow and Ross’s geese, which count sightings, not birds. Every state is on the snow goose migration hub.