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- noun Plural form of
brant .
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Examples
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Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..." greygirlbeast 2010
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Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..." greygirlbeast 2010
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Chrome and the quest for ubiquity | brants on Sep 4th at 8pm
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Social Branding (3 of 3) | brants on Oct 9th at 6pm
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In wind, rain, and snow thousands of ducks—also called black brants or just brants—slammed into the edifice and met their doom.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Social Aggregation - Birds of the same feather … | brants
Yoono Announces Support For IE, New Services Jason Kincaid 2005
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Widgeon grass, a submerged plant that grows in marshland pools, is particularly valuable because all of its parts are edible; it constitutes a large part of the diet of Canada geese, brants, coots, scaups, and many dabbling ducks.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Widgeon grass, a submerged plant that grows in marshland pools, is particularly valuable because all of its parts are edible; it constitutes a large part of the diet of Canada geese, brants, coots, scaups, and many dabbling ducks.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Widgeon grass, a submerged plant that grows in marshland pools, is particularly valuable because all of its parts are edible; it constitutes a large part of the diet of Canada geese, brants, coots, scaups, and many dabbling ducks.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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I killed 7 brant and one duck, and the commandant killed 2 brants and a duck; the priest furnished me with shot.
Journal of Harrison G. Rogers, member of the company of J. S. Smith 1918
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