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Brant
Branta bernicla
The brant, also known as the brent goose (Branta bernicla) is a species of goose of the genus Branta. The black brant is an American subspecies.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Bestiary
Anonymous · 1240 · p.59
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.29
Constantinople Painted by Warwick Goble
Alexander Van Millingen · 1906 · p.139
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 9 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.6
Histoire Naturelle des Indes (The Drake Manuscript)
Anonymous (French) · 1586 · p.75
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.274
Louis Renard — Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1754)
Louis Renard · 1754 · p.127
Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1771 · p.131
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.520
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.548
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.596
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.622
In the stacks
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Every page naming Branta bernicla in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 7087.