Brant
Branta bernicla
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Call and song
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About the Brant
Small, short-legged coastal goose; distinctive black head and neck with small white necklace. Some variation in belly and flank coloration across subspecies. "Black Brant," mainly of western North America and eastern Asia, is darkest, with contrasting white flanks. Breeds on tundra in the high Arctic; winters in saltmarshes, rocky coastlines, sheltered bays, and beaches. Typically uncommon to rare inland. Almost always seen in flocks, only rarely mixing with other geese species.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 57 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- China
- Cuba
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guernsey
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Japan
- Jersey
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- North Korea
- Norway
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Romania
- Russia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Western Sahara
