Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of geese, containing the barnacle-goose, brent-goose, and related species, which have black bills, black head and neck with white markings, and the general color dark, with white or light tail-coverts.
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Examples
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Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..." greygirlbeast 2010
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Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..." greygirlbeast 2010
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Factors relating to breeding production of Brent Geese Branta b. bernicla and waders (Charadrii) on the Taimyr Peninsula.
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Specifically the Exe Estuary Special Protected Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site supports over 20,000 wildfowl in the winter months, including the internationally important populations of avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla and the slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus.
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Nine species noted in Nalychevo Nature Park are considered nationally threatened: emperor goose Philacte canagica, brent goose Branta bernicla, osprey Pandion haliaetus, Steller's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus (VU), white-tailed eagle H. albicilla, gyrfalcon Falco rusticolis, peregrine F. peregrinus, and solitary snipe Gallinago solitaria.
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Birds visiting the area include Brent goose Branta bernicla, common eider Somateria mollissima, red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator, pomarine skua Stercorarius pomarinus, Arctic skua Stercorarius parasiticus, Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea and Brünnich's guillemot Uria lomvia.
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_Buffonii_, the latter the more common of the two; _Anser bernicla_, very common; and finally the long-tailed duck (_Harelda glacialis_) in great flocks swimming in the Sound.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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(Branta bernicla), which breeds along the Arctic coasts of northern Siberia; the Svalbard population occurs in England regularly only at Lindisfarne; while small numbers of Canadian pale-bellied brent geese occur occasionally in the south west with the main population wintering in Ireland.
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(Branta bernicla), which breeds along the Arctic coasts of northern Siberia; the Svalbard population occurs in England regularly only at Lindisfarne; while small numbers of Canadian pale-bellied brent geese occur occasionally in the south west with the main population wintering in Ireland.
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_prutgaessen_, barnacle goose (_Anser bernicla_, L.) marked on the upper part of the body in black and brownish grey.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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