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Branta

WoRMS 159174ITIS 174998key itis:174998
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2026-08-05: worms_id 159174 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Branta canadensis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

A Canada Goose swimming at Smythe Park, Toronto, Canada.
Photo · Michael Gil from Toronto, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · commons

The black geese or white-cheeked geese of the genus Branta are waterfowl belonging to the true goose and swan subfamily Anserinae. They occur in the northern coastal regions of the Palearctic and all over North America, migrating to more southerly coasts in winter, and as resident birds in the Hawaiian Islands.W CalCOFI holds 28 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 2022.R

28
observations
28
records
1990–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174998")