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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Branta bernicla

Brant

WoRMS 159175ITIS 175011key itis:175011
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2026-08-05: worms_id 159175 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.

Brent Goose Branta bernicla bernicla, Norfolk, UK
Photo · Kev Chapman · CC BY 2.0 · commons

The brant or brent goose is a small goose in the genus Branta. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra.W CalCOFI holds 28 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 2022.R

28
observations
28
records
28
sampling events
1990–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:175011%22