american brant

american brant
noun
Usage: usually capitalized A
: a small dark short-necked goose (Branta bernicla hrota) that winters along the middle Atlantic coast and breeds in northwest Greenland and adjacent islands

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American brant,
a wild goose of North America that breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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