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Definition of brant bird

brant bird
Turnstone Turn"stone`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake. Black turnstone, the California turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala). The adult in summer is mostly black, except some white streaks on the chest and forehead, and two white loral spots.

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- around the U.S./Canada border. These birds are intermediate in appearance between black brant and pale-bellied brant, having brown upperparts and grey underparts...
- Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals...
- defending his nest from a brant that wandered into the area; the following attack lasted for one hour until the death of the brant. The cause of death was...
- "Dirty Bird", a 2010 song by Brant Bjork from the album Gods & Goddesses Charleston Dirty Birds, an American professional baseball team Dirty Bird, a Toronto...
- In this list of birds by common name, a total of 10,976 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. Species marked with a "†"...
- known examples of hybrid speciation in birds, being the result of ancient interbreeding between the ancestral brant goose and white-ch****ed goose (the latter...
- This Is the Way (1981) With Allen Collins Band Here, There & Back (1983) Brant 2002, pg. 18 Odom 2002, pg. 34 "Allen Collins Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio...
- from the grey Anser species. Despite its superficial similarity to the brant goose, genetic analysis has shown it is an eastern derivative of the cackling...
- Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes (/ˈstrɪdʒəfɔːrmiːz/), which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified...
- This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the...