brant goose


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Related to brant goose: brent goose, barnacle goose
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.brant goose - small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southwardbrant goose - small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward
brant, brent, brent goose
goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
Branta, genus Branta - wild geese
Branta bernicla, common brant goose - the best known variety of brant goose
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Translations
barnacla carinegra
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East Bridgewater wildlife artist Randy Julius has won the 2011 Massachusetts Waterfowl Stamp competition again with a painting of a brant goose decoy carved by Joseph Lincoln of Hingham.
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The "pale-bellied black goose" illustrated in Plate 4 is actually a pale-bellied brant goose. The "saxifrage" depicted on page 33 is not a saxifrage, but moss campion, a member of the carnation family.
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The brant goose (Branta bernicla L.) in the Soviet Union.
Breeding biology of brant on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

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