The brent goose is somewhat smaller than the barnacle goose. Created with Sketch. and ‘YA Y’ respectively; YZY= : means a bird with a yellow ring with three horizontal bars (triple bar) on the left leg, and a yellow ring with two horizontal bars (double bar) on its right leg, WAY- : left a white ring with a black A, and right a yellow ring with one black horizontal bar (single bar). Right around the time the young fledge the adults moult their plumage leaving them flightless for several weeks. https://animals.fandom.com/wiki/Brent_Goose?oldid=49790. Noun . It breeds in Franz Josef Land, Svalbard, Greenland and northeastern Canada, wintering in Denmark, northeast England, Ireland and the Atlantic coast of the U.S. from Maine to Georgia. On the east coast of North America, the inclusion of sea lettuce is a recent change to their diet, brought about by a blight on eelgrass in 1931. Apart from letters and digits also one, two or three horizontal bars have been engraved around a ring as a unique symbol (indicated by -, = or Z). The few that survived changed their diet to include sea lettuce until the eelgrass eventually began to return. Brent Goose OYR9 (left orange Y; right red 9) accompanied by young bird (Tim Crawshaw) Notation of ring combinations. This epic journey was once…, Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing…, A winter visitor, the well-travelled Bewick's swan is the smallest of our swans. This species saw a decline in the 1930’s due to an eelgrass disease, which is their main source of food. White lettering often turns a little brownish or yellowish over time. Birds from the Kile area in northeast Greenland aggregate with birds from Svalbard and Franz Josef Land to winter in Denmark and in Northumberland in England. The pale-bellied brant goose appears blackish-brown and light grey in colour. It was thought to number in excess of 50,000 individuals. Conservation status. Some birds have been marked with a colour-ring bearing a double inscription, e.g. It has a black head and neck and grey-brown back, with either a pale or dark belly, depending on the race. Branta bernicla (Latin). In recent decades, it has started using agricultural land a short distance inland, feeding extensively on grass and winter-sown cereals. They have a black head, neck and breast, with white patches on the sides of the neck. There are three subspecies of Brent Goose; the dark-bellied, pale-bellied and the black brent goose. Branta is a Latinised form of Old Norsebrandgás, "burnt (black) goose) and bernicla is the medieval Latin name for the barnacle.The brent and the similar barnacle goose were previously considered one species, formerly believed to be the same creature as the crustacean. 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