Brants

Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra). ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

Chrome and the quest for ubiquity | brants on Sep 4th at 8pm ❋ Unknown (2008)

Social Branding (3 of 3) | brants on Oct 9th at 6pm ❋ Unknown (2008)

In wind, rain, and snow thousands of ducks—also called black brants or just brants—slammed into the edifice and met their doom. ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)

Social Aggregation - Birds of the same feather … | brants ❋ Jason Kincaid (2005)

Widgeon grass, a submerged plant that grows in marshland pools, is particularly valuable because all of its parts are edible; it constitutes a large part of the diet of Canada geese, brants, coots, scaups, and many dabbling ducks. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)

I killed 7 brant and one duck, and the commandant killed 2 brants and a duck; the priest furnished me with shot. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Dark swarms of wild ducks were in all the ponds; V-shaped flocks of geese and brants screamed overhead, and down in the slough cranes danced a solemn minuet. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)

A peculiar and indescribable inflection would lead one, hearing and not seeing these boatmen, to fancy himself listening to a flight of brants in stormy weather. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)

Then follow the brants, wavey, or laughing geese, which are all smaller varieties. ❋ Egerton R. Young (1874)

Whether there were fish, we had yet to discover; but we had no fear of starving, for the whole surface of the lake swarmed with birds -- swans, gulls, pelicans, geese, herons, brants, sand-hill cranes, and many varieties of ducks. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

It also affords every variety of game, while the lake is completely crowded with geese, brants, ducks, and gulls, to an extent seldom witnessed. ❋ Unknown (1841)

These consist of geese, brants, ducks (of three or four varieties,) swans, pelicans, and gulls. ❋ Unknown (1841)

Here we found a deer, and the skin of a white wolf, left us by our hunters ahead: large quantities of different kinds of plover and brants are in this neighbourhood, and seen collecting and moving towards the south; the catfish are small, and not in such plenty as we had found them below this place. ❋ William Clark (1804)

We saw geese, swan, brants and ducks of different kinds on the sandbars, and on shore numbers of the prairie hen; the magpie too is very common, but the gulls and plover, which we saw in such numbers below, are now quite rare. ❋ William Clark (1804)