Aerial survey methods are regularly used to estimate the number of snow geese in their summer range areas west of Hudson Bay in Canada. To obtain estimates small aircraft fly over the range, and when a flock of geese is spotted, an experienced person estimates the number of geese in the flock. To investigate the reliability of this method of counting, an experiment was conducted in which an airplane carrying two observers flew over n = 45 flocks, and each obserer made an independent estimate of the number of birds in each flock. Also, a photograph of the flock was taken so that an exact count of the number of birds in teh flock could be made. The resulting data are given in the dataset "snowgees.dat". (Cooka nd Jacobsen, 1978). The variables are: photo -- count based on photo obs1 -- observer 1's count obs2 -- observer 2's count