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The Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. Despite its superficial outward similarity to the Brent Goose, genetic analysis has shown it is an eastern derivative of the Cackling Goose lineage. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1544x1024, 715 KB) Branta leucopsis (fi: Valkoposkihanhi, en: Barnacle Goose), taken in Korkeasaari (Zoo in Helsinki) photographed: Linnea Samila camera: Canon EOS 650 File links The following pages link to this file: Barnacle Goose User:Dsmdgold/Good bird pictures ...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
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Families Anhimidae Anseranatidae Anatidae †Dromornithidae †Presbyornithidae The order Anseriformes contains about 150 species of birds in three families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie-goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. ...
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Thalassorninae Anserinae Stictonettinae Plectropterinae Tadorninae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Oxyurinae and see text Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. ...
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Binomial name Branta bernicla (Linnaeus, 1758) The Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) is a goose of the genus Branta, known in North America as Brant. ...
Binomial name Branta hutchinsii (Richardson, 1832) Subspecies (Richardsons Cackling Goose) (Bering Cackling Goose) - extinct (Aleutian Cackling Goose) (Taverners Cackling Goose) (Small Cackling Goose) Synonyms Branta canadensis hutchinsii Branta canadensis asiatica Branta canadensis leucopareia Branta canadensis taverneri Branta canadensis minima The Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii), colloquially Lesser or Small...
Anatomy and morphology The Barnacle Goose is a medium-sized goose with a white face and black head, neck, and upper breast. Its belly is white. The wings and its back are silver-gray with black-and-white bars. During flight a V-shaped white rump patch and the silver-gray underwing linings are visible. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (2793 × 1862 pixel, file size: 3. ...
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Distribution
 Trying to eat my shoe - Malmöhus, Sweden Barnacle Geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic. There are three main populations, with separate breeding and wintering ranges; from west to east: Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 689 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (718 × 625 pixel, file size: 80 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Barnacle Goose Metadata This file contains...
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- Breeding in eastern Greenland, wintering on the Hebrides of western Scotland and in western Ireland. Population about 40,000.
- Breeding on Svalbard, wintering on the Solway Firth on the England/Scotland border. Population about 24,000.
- Breeding on Novaya Zemlya, wintering in the Netherlands. Population about 130,000.
- A new fourth population, derived from the Novaya Zemlya population, has become established since 1975 breeding on the Baltic Sea islands (Estonia, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden), and wintering in the Netherlands. Population about 8,000.
Small numbers of feral birds, derived from escapes from zoo collections, also breed in several other north European countries. Occasionally, a wild bird will appear in the Northeastern United States or Canada, but care must be taken to separate out wild birds from escaped individuals, as Barnacle Geese are popular waterfowl with collectors. This article is about the Hebrides islands in Scotland. ...
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Ecology, behavior and life history
 Flock on autumn migration Barnacle Geese frequently build their nests high on mountain cliffs; away from predators (primarily Arctic Foxes and Polar Bears) but also away from food. Like all geese, the goslings are not fed by the adults. Instead of bringing food to the newly hatched goslings, the goslings are brought to the ground. It was once thought that adults carried the young down to the ground but the truth is far more difficult to imagine. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 366 pixelsFull resolution (2993 × 1370 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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Binomial name Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Arctic Fox range Synonyms Vulpes lagopus Arctic fox, also known as the polar fox, is a small fox native to cold Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. ...
Binomial name Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 Polar bear range Synonyms Thalarctos maritimus The polar bear (Ursus maritimus), also known as the white bear, northern bear, sea bear, ice bear or nanuq in some Inuit languages, is a species of bear that is native to the Arctic and the apex predator...
Unable to fly, the three day old goslings jump off the cliff and fall; their small size, feathery down, and very light weight helps to protect some of them from serious injury when they hit the rocks below, but many die from the awful impacts they experience on the way down and upon final landing. To complicate matters, arctic foxes are attracted by the noise made by the parent geese during this time and capture many dead or injured goslings. The foxes also stalk the young as they are led by the parents nearly one-half mile across a meadow to nearby wetland feeding areas. This spectacle is one of the most bizarre and disturbing in nature and a testament to the will to survive.
Its call is a "kaw".
Conservation The Barnacle Goose is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.[citation needed] There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...
Importance to humans
In mythology
 Barnacle Geese. Facsimile of an Engraving on Wood, from the "Cosmographie Universelle" of Munster, folio, Basle, 1552. The English name of this species, and the scientific name of the Brent Goose (B. bernicla) and the Goose Barnacle, come from the old fable that Barnacle Geese were produced from barnacles, organisms that grow on timber exposed to salt water. This belief stemmed from the observation that these geese were never seen in summer, when they were supposedly developing underwater (they were actually breeding in remote Arctic regions). The barnacles and the geese shared similar black and white colours, plus a certain type of barnacle looked - with a bit of imagination - like a tiny black and white goose. The geese and the barnacles appeared in different seasons. Though the issue was controversial, it was an important part of medieval cuisine because it enabled Catholics to classify these geese as fish and therefore to eat their flesh during Lent.
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Binomial name Pollicipes polymerus Sowerby, 1833 The Gooseneck barnacle (Pollicipes polymerus) is a species of filter-feeding crustacean that lives attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone. ...
Superorders Acrothoracica Thoracica Rhizocephala A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters. ...
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Bibliography - BirdLife International (2004). Branta leucopsis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
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References
External links - RSPB A to Z of UK Birds
- Barnacle Goose videos on the Internet Bird Collection
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