26-608: [REDACTED] Look up brant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brant may refer to: Places [ edit ] Brant County, Ontario , Canada Brant (electoral district) , Ontario, Canada Brant North , Ontario, Canada Brant South , Ontario, Canada Brant South (provincial electoral district) , Ontario, Canada Brant—Wentworth , Ontario, Canada Brantford , Ontario, Canada Brantville, New Brunswick , Canada Brant, Alberta , Canada Brant Broughton ,
52-468: A Canadian Coast Guard navigation aids vessel USFS Brant , a United States Bureau of Fisheries fishery patrol vessel in commission from 1926 to 1940 which then served in the Fish and Wildlife Service fleet as US FWS Brant from 1940 to 1953 USS Brant , more than one United States Navy ship Other uses [ edit ] Brant (goose) ( Branta bernicla ), a species of goose (also known as
78-417: A Canadian Coast Guard navigation aids vessel USFS Brant , a United States Bureau of Fisheries fishery patrol vessel in commission from 1926 to 1940 which then served in the Fish and Wildlife Service fleet as US FWS Brant from 1940 to 1953 USS Brant , more than one United States Navy ship Other uses [ edit ] Brant (goose) ( Branta bernicla ), a species of goose (also known as
104-438: A contrast with the white flank patch. It has also been proposed that, rather than being a separate subspecies, it is actually a result of interbreeding between these two forms, given that this population exhibits mixed characters. Individual birds when wintering generally remain in loose family-groups, together with others of the same sub-species, but there is overlap in some areas (for example Western Europe, see above); and this
130-1502: A village in Lincolnshire , England Brant Fell , a hill in the Lake District , North West England Brant Island, Massachusetts , United States Brant Township, Michigan , United States Brant, New York , United States Brant Lake, New York , United States Brant, Wisconsin , United States People [ edit ] Brant (surname) , people with the surname Brant Brant Alyea , American former professional baseball outfielder Brant Bjork , American musician Brant Boyer , American former football linebacker Brant Brown , American hitting coach Brant Chambers , Australian rules footballer Brant Colledge , Australian rules footballer Brant Daugherty , American actor Brant Garvey , Australian paratriathlete Brant Hansen , American radio show host and author Brant Kuithe , American football tight end Brant Little , Canadian middle-distance runner Brant Miller , American meteorologist Brant Parker , American cartoonist Brant Pinvidic , Canadian film director Brant J. Pitre , American theologian Brant Rosen , American rabbi and blogger Brant Ust , Belgian former professional baseball player Brant Weidner , American former professional basketball player Brant Woodward , New Zealand sport shooter Ships [ edit ] CCGS Brant ,
156-1380: A village in Lincolnshire , England Brant Fell , a hill in the Lake District , North West England Brant Island, Massachusetts , United States Brant Township, Michigan , United States Brant, New York , United States Brant Lake, New York , United States Brant, Wisconsin , United States People [ edit ] Brant (surname) , people with the surname Brant Brant Alyea , American former professional baseball outfielder Brant Bjork , American musician Brant Boyer , American former football linebacker Brant Brown , American hitting coach Brant Chambers , Australian rules footballer Brant Colledge , Australian rules footballer Brant Daugherty , American actor Brant Garvey , Australian paratriathlete Brant Hansen , American radio show host and author Brant Kuithe , American football tight end Brant Little , Canadian middle-distance runner Brant Miller , American meteorologist Brant Parker , American cartoonist Brant Pinvidic , Canadian film director Brant J. Pitre , American theologian Brant Rosen , American rabbi and blogger Brant Ust , Belgian former professional baseball player Brant Weidner , American former professional basketball player Brant Woodward , New Zealand sport shooter Ships [ edit ] CCGS Brant ,
182-471: Is a small goose of the genus Branta . There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after the species. The brant was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Anas bernicla . Linnaeus specified
208-404: Is a very contrastingly black and white bird, with a uniformly dark sooty-brown back, similarly coloured underparts (with the dark colour extending furthest back of the three forms) and a prominent white flank patch; it also has larger white neck patches, forming a near-complete collar. The population of about 125,000 breeds in northwestern Canada, Alaska and eastern Siberia , and winters mostly on
234-451: Is also true in the breeding colonies. Outside the breeding season, individuals with characteristics of any subspecies may occasionally turn up with regular migrants, and there has been debate as to whether this is related to migration routing accidents, or to breeding range overlap, or even interbreeding. The brant goose was strictly coastal bird in winter, rarely leaving tidal estuaries , where it feeds on eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) and
260-622: Is generally now believed that this is not correct, and they are assigned to B. b. nigricans . A fourth form (sometimes known as the 'gray-bellied brant) has been proposed, although no formal subspecies description has been made as yet, for a population of birds breeding in central Arctic Canada (mainly Melville Island ), and wintering on Puget Sound on the American west coast 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 which give less of
286-518: The seaweed , sea lettuce ( Ulva ). On the east coast of North America, the inclusion of sea lettuce is a recent change to their diet, brought about by a blight on eelgrass in 1931. This resulted in the near-extirpation of the brant. The few that survived changed their diet to include sea lettuce until the eelgrass eventually began to return. Brants have maintained this diet ever since as a survival strategy. A similar collapse in eelgrass in Ireland in
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#1732772603866312-516: The type locality as Europe but in 1761 restricted it to Sweden. The brant is now one of six species placed in the genus Branta that was introduced in 1769 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli . The genus name Branta is a Latinised form of Old Norse brandgás , "burnt (black) goose". The specific epithet bernicla is Medieval Latin for barnacle . The brant and the similar barnacle goose were previously considered to be
338-421: The 1930s also negatively impacted the population. In recent decades, it has started using agricultural land a short distance inland, feeding extensively on grass and winter-sown cereals . It has been suggested that they learnt this behaviour by following other species of geese. Food resource pressure may also be important in forcing this change, as the world population increased over 10-fold to 400,000-500,000 by
364-598: The Brent goose) Brant's Volunteers , an irregular corps raised in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War by Joseph Brant Black Brant (rocket) , a Canadian-designed sounding rocket See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Brant All pages with titles containing Brant Brandt (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
390-466: The Brent goose) Brant's Volunteers , an irregular corps raised in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War by Joseph Brant Black Brant (rocket) , a Canadian-designed sounding rocket See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Brant All pages with titles containing Brant Brandt (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
416-693: The flanks and belly are significantly paler than the back and present a marked contrast. The head and neck are black, with a small white patch on either side of the neck. The total population is about 250,000, with the main population breeding in northeastern Canada and wintering along the Atlantic coast of the U.S. from Maine to Georgia , and two smaller populations, one breeding in Franz Josef Land , Svalbard , and northeastern Greenland and wintering in Denmark, northeast England, and Scotland, and
442-533: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up brant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brant may refer to: Places [ edit ] Brant County, Ontario , Canada Brant (electoral district) , Ontario, Canada Brant North , Ontario, Canada Brant South , Ontario, Canada Brant South (provincial electoral district) , Ontario, Canada Brant—Wentworth , Ontario, Canada Brantford , Ontario, Canada Brantville, New Brunswick , Canada Brant, Alberta , Canada Brant Broughton ,
468-472: The mid-1980s, possibly reaching the carrying capacity of the estuaries. In the breeding season, it uses low-lying wet coastal tundra for both breeding and feeding. The nest is bowl-shaped, lined with grass and down, in an elevated location, often near a small pond. The brant is listed as a species of "Least Concern" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It is one of
494-458: The neck. With a population of about 250000, it breeds on the Arctic coasts of central and western Siberia and winters in coastal areas of western Europe, with over half the population in southern England, the rest between northern Germany and south-western France. The pale-bellied form B. b. hrota appears blackish-brown and light grey in colour. The body is different shades of grey-brown all over,
520-580: The other breeding in the far-northeastern Canadian islands and wintering in Ireland, southwest England, and in a small but significant area, le havre de Regnéville, centered on the Sienne Estuary in Manche (Northern France). In Ireland it is recorded in winter from a number of areas including Lough Foyle , Strangford Lough , Tralee Bay and Castlemaine Harbour . The black form B. b. nigricans appears blackish-brown and white in colour. This form
546-413: The same species and believed to be the same creature as the barnacle. That myth can be dated back to at least the 12th century. Gerald of Wales claimed to have seen these birds hanging down from pieces of timber, William Turner accepted the theory, and John Gerard claimed to have seen the birds emerging from their shells. This myth arose because in the 1100s the migration of birds was unknown, but it
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#1732772603866572-488: The title Brant . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brant&oldid=1214740473 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages brant From Misplaced Pages,
598-573: The title Brant . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brant&oldid=1214740473 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brant (goose) Anas bernicla Linnaeus, 1758 The brant or brent goose ( Branta bernicla )
624-405: The west coast of North America from southern Alaska to California , but also some in east Asia, mainly Japan, also Korea and China. The population has been as high as 200,000 in 1981, and as low as 100,000 in 1987. The Asian populations of the black brant populations had previously been regarded as a separate subspecies B. b. orientalis based on purported paler upperparts coloration; however, it
650-401: The wings and weighs 0.88–2.2 kg (1.9–4.9 lb). The under-tail is pure white, and the tail black and very short (the shortest of any goose). The body of the dark-bellied nominate subspecies B. b. bernicla is fairly uniformly dark grey-brown all over, the flanks and belly not significantly paler than the back. The head and neck are black, with a small white patch on either side of
676-455: Was known that none of these birds was ever seen nesting, nor were eggs found, nor were goslings seen. The legend persisted until the end of the 18th century. In County Kerry , until relatively recently, Catholics could eat this bird on a Friday because it counted as fish. Three subspecies are recognised: The brant is a small goose with a short, stubby bill. It measures 55–66 cm (22–26 in) long, 106–121 cm (42–48 in) across
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