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Definition of brant bird

brant bird
Turnstone Turn"stone`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake. Black turnstone, the California turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala). The adult in summer is mostly black, except some white streaks on the chest and forehead, and two white loral spots.

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- around the U.S./Canada border. These birds are intermediate in appearance between black brant and pale-bellied brant, having brown upperparts and grey underparts...
- Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (Latin: [ˈaːwεs]), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying...
- Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as (although not the same as) raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other...
- "Dirty Bird", a 2010 song by Brant Bjork from the album Gods & Goddesses Charleston Dirty Birds, an American professional baseball team Dirty Bird, a Toronto...
- defending his nest from a brant that wandered into the area; the following attack lasted for one hour until the death of the brant. The cause of death was...
- the common loon, and the lesser black-backed gull. Brant geese, including the occasional black brant, can sometimes be seen at the athletic fields in foul...
- In this list of birds by common name 11,250 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. Species marked with a "†" are extinct...
- List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. The county is in Northern California, located on the California coast, including northern Monterey Bay...
- The Brantly B-2 is an American two-seat light helicopter produced by the Brantly Helicopter Corporation. After the failure of his first design, the Brantly...
- precocial birds, Lack determined that clutch size was determined by the nutrients available to egg-laying females. An experimental study in brant geese (Branta...