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Metadata
Title: Brant Protecting Goslings
Alternative Title: (none)
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Source: FWS-5662
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contributor: ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTOR-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Language: EN - ENGLISH
Rights: (public domain)
Audience: (general)
Subject: Refuges, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Birds, Waterfowl, Goose, Geese, ARLIS


Description
Abstract: Possibly Izembek. Pair of Black Brant with newly hatched goslings.

Date
Available: May 09 2002
Issued: November 26 2001
Modified: December 23 2003

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.