barnacle goose

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barnacle goose

A waterfowl (Branta leucopsis) of northern Europe and Greenland that breeds in the Arctic and has a white face with a black streak between the eyes and bill.

[Earlier barnacle; see barnacle.]

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barnacle goose

1. (Animals) a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings

2. (Animals) a former name for brent goose

[C13 bernekke, related to Late Latin bernaca, from the belief that the goose developed from a shellfish; ultimate origin obscure]

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bar′nacle goose′

a wild goose of Arctic regions, Branta leucopsis, that winters in N Europe.

[1760–70; earlier barnacle, Middle English bernacle; compare Middle French bernacle, earlier Middle English bernak, bernekke, Old French bernaque]

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Noun

barnacle goose - European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north

Branta leucopsis, barnacle

goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks

Branta, genus Branta - wild geese

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barnacle goose

n → Nonnengans f

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barnacle goose

n → oca dalle guance bianche

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The PS60,000 barnacle goose management scheme, launched yesterday by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), will compensate producers for allowing the geese to graze undisturbed in protected areas of the islands, so they will cause less damage elsewhere.

Geese grazing scheme offers compensation; Wildlife: SNH launches PS60,000 project for isles

Musician and sonic artist, Stuart Macpherson, is colaborating with filmmaker Emma Dove and sound recordist Pete Smith to offer a creative response to the spring migration of the Barnacle Goose from the wetlands of the Solway Firth to the Islands of Svalbard.

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Until the end of the 1980s, the Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) was an extremely rare migrating species in the Russian part of the Gulf of Finland, but in recent years it has become one of the mass migrants there.

Nesting of Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) in the Russian Part of the Gulf of Finland

| A juvenile Little Gull was a surprise addition to the Rhos seascape on Saturday; a single Barnacle Goose here, and seven more at RSPB Conwy, are probably part of the Cumbrian breeding population that stopped en route to the Dyfi estuary, where RSPB Ynys-hir reported the first birds in late August, earlier than usual.

BIRD NOTES

Genetic and social inheritance of body an egg size in the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis).

Rearing conditions of greylag geese affect habitat choice throughout life

tested (%) Wadden Species Randbol Sea Greylag goose 0/8 1 ([dagger]) /37 (2.7) Pink-footed goose -- -- Barnacle goose -- -- Taiga bean goose -- -- Tundra bean goose -- -- White-fronted goose -- -- Canada goose -- -- Hybrid -- -- All species 0/8 1/37 (2.7) No.

Aquatic bird bornavirus 1 in Wild Geese, Denmark

Once they're netted, they can be banded or radio monitored, like a 30-year-old banded barnacle goose that arrived at Caerlaverock Wetland Centre, one of Scott's network of refuges, in 2014.

An artistic migration: a knight leaves his indelible mark on waterfowl conservation

Land in Amsterdam and enjoy the town, then head out and hunt in one of the best places in the world to shoot a barnacle goose, which is "a beautiful bird, vocal, roughly the size of a Ross's goose, vaguely similar to a brant ...

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Barnacle goose: One of the most attractive of the goose species.

FEATHERED FRIENDS

No, not those barnacle goose chicks preparing to leap from a 400ft clifftop in search of food and survival on David Attenborough's utterly wonderful BBC1 series Life Story.

It's turning sour for Sugar's wannabes

Cameras follow flightless barnacle goose chicks as they strive to find food, leaping 400ft down a cliff from the ledge where they hatched.