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