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Definition of Branta bernicla

Branta bernicla
Brand goose Brand" goose` [Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandg[*a]s. Cf. Brant.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.
Branta bernicla
Brant Brant (br[a^]nt), n. [Cf.Brand goose, Brent, Brenicle.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

Meaning of Branta bernicla from wikipedia

- The brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla) is a small goose of the genus Branta. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone...
- as in "burnt (black) goose". The type species is the brant goose (Branta bernicla). Ottenburghs and colleagues published a study in 2016 that established...
- avoiding such barriers are observed. For example, brent geese Branta bernicla bernicla migrating between the Taymyr Peninsula and the Wadden Sea travel...
- David A.; Salame, Issa (2012). "Interspecific Killing of a Branta bernicla (Brant) by a Male Branta canadensis (Canada Goose)". Northeastern Naturalist. 19...
- The nene (Branta sandvicensis), also known as the nēnē or the Hawaiian goose, is a species of bird endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The nene is exclusively...
- to egg-laying females. An experimental study in black brent geese (Branta bernicla), which rarely lay more than five eggs, found that the probability...
- about the breeding habits of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and brant goose (Branta bernicla). One version of the myth is that these geese emerge...
- Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa islandica) Dark-bellied brent goose (Branta bernicla bernicla) Dunlin (Calidris alpina alpina) Eurasian golden plover (Pluvialis...
- goose (Branta bernicla) to make this unnecessary, despite its distinct appearance. Today all major authorities include the red-breasted goose in Branta. Genetic...
- of interest include: the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis), the light-bellied brent goose (Branta bernicla hrota), the chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)...