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Metadata
Title: Flightless Brant Geese in Pen
Alternative Title: Branta bernicla
Creator: Taylor, Eric
Source: AK/RO/03159
Publisher: (none)
Contributor: ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTOR-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: Birds
Waterfowl
Goose
Work of the Service
Bird Banding
Date
Available: April 21 2004
Issued: April 21 2004
Modified: April 21 2004
Brent Goose (Branta bernicla), a goose of the genus Branta, is known in North America as Brant. The spelling "Brant" is the original one, with "Brent" being a later folk-etymological idea that it was derived from a classical Greek waterbird name brenthos. It is in fact onomatopoeic, derived from the guttural call note of the species. For the origin of the scientific name bernicla, see Barnacle Goose.
