Branta

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159174ITIS 174998key itis:174998

2026-08-05: worms_id 159174 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

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

Photo · Michael Gil from Toronto, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

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

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 1 taxon

sp Branta bernicla Brant28

Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Anatidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Branta canadensis · source
Photo · Michael Gil from Toronto, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Branta” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1351426374

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗