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 Translation for 'brent goose' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a brent goose | brent geese
SYNO brant | brant goose | brent | ...
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ringgås {m/f} [Branta bernicla]
brent goose [Br.]
Partial Matches
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gås {m/f}
goose
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sædgås {m/f} [Anser fabalis]
bean goose
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kanadagås {m/f} [Branta canadensis]
Canada goose
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hvitkinngås {m/f} [Branta leucopsis]
barnacle goose
gåsehud {m/f}goose pimples {pl}
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rødhalsgås {m/f} [Branta ruficollis]
red-breasted goose
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kortnebbgås {m/f} [Anser brachyrhynchus]
pink-footed goose
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brunhodegås {m/f} [Chloephaga rubidiceps]
ruddy-headed goose
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tundragås {m/f} [Anser albifrons]
(greater) white-fronted goose
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dverggås {m/f} [Anser erythropus]
lesser white-fronted goose
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Usage Examples English
  • The lesser white-fronted goose, brent goose, Bewick's swan and the spectacled eider are also found in the Khroma-Sundrun Interfluvial Area.
  • The lesser white-fronted goose, Brent goose, Bewick's swan and the spectacled eider are also found in the Khroma-Sundrun Interfluvial Area.
  • Wintering wildfowl are characteristic of grazing marshes, often including large flocks of Eurasian wigeon, brent goose, white-fronted goose and Bewick's swan.
  • The marshes are the homes to many wildlife species, including lapwing, brent goose, golden plover and marsh harrier.
  • The Iceland gull and the brent goose can be seen at Gress.

  • To the east of the pond area is Tangier Field, a large grassed open space that also serves as a valuable habitat for the brent goose or brant goose, an internationally important protected species, which visits the Solent area in the winter months.
  • The northern shores have extensive mudflats and salt marshes which provide winter feeding areas for the pale-bellied brent goose ("Branta bernicla hrota").
  • The name "Brent" comes from the naming policy of Shell UK Exploration and Production, operating on behalf of ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, which originally named all of its fields after birds (in this case the brent goose).
  • Smaller, but also important, are the colonies of the brent goose ("Branta bernicla") and numerous other polar bird species there.
  • The estuary has an internationally important population of Brent Goose and nationally important populations of other species of birds.

  • In the summer the wetlands are home to large populations of migratory birds, including the Siberian crane, Brent goose, Bewick's swan and the spectacled eider.
  • In addition the mentioned roles, it plays an important part in the winter diet of the whooper and mute swan, the brent goose, wigeon and wildfowl.
  • These existing sites protect extensive areas of mudflats and saltmarsh, which support a wide range of species including internationally and nationally important numbers of waterfowl such as Brent Goose and Curlew.
  • The area is important staging area for brent goose and red knot.
  • polar bear, Arctic fox, snow bunting, king eider, brent goose and long-tailed skua in the north, and the Weddell seal and Adélie penguin in the south.

  • Notable species include brent goose, jack snipe, spotted redshank and greenshank.
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