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brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. The head, neck, and tail are black, the back brownish gray, and the under parts grayish white. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is their staple food. The Old World barnacle goose, B. leucopsis, so named because it was thought to grow out of barnacles attached to driftwood, is very similar to the brant and is an occasional visitor to North America. The black brant migrates from its arctic breeding grounds to the Pacific coast. White brant is an alternate name for the snow goose, which belongs to the same family, and gray, or prairie, brant refers to the American white-fronted goose. Brants are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Anseriformes, family Anatidae.

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"Brent Geese are a protected species and we need to do what we can to ensure their survival against the odds that they face," said Kendrew Colhoun, lead scientist with the Brent Goose Project.

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Strangford Lough is by far the most important site in the world for the eastern Canadian population of the Light-bellied Brent Goose.

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Habitat use of hare and Brent Goose was quantified, and the herbivores' effect upon the vegetation was measured using exclosures.

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A snow bunting was a nice find on Kinmel beach where a juvenile Brent goose remains, presumed unwell.

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Lindisfarne also often has half the population of the brent goose - one of the most threatened goose species in the world.

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Ulster's Mr Green, Brian Black - you know what I mean - went on the trail of the lonesome Brent goose.

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Ambell waith byddai elyrch yn canlyn Davida, a thro arall gwydd Canada neu wydd ddu (Brent goose).

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Few will make it to North Wales, but a pale-bellied brent goose from Greenland was an early arrival at Foryd Bay.

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On Sagastyr Island, 200 brent goose nests were counted in June, but only 20 of these produced young, and only two goslings were still alive on 31 July.

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A Short-eared Owl quartered over rough grassland east of the River Clwyd on Monday, while on the Dee estuary, 60 Twite remain at Connah's Quay, with a single Brent Goose.

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A spoonbill was again at Anglesey's Malltraeth Cob, Mediterranean gulls were reported from the Alaw estuary, Traeth Dulas and Abergwyngregyn, with an early brent goose also there.