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Izembek Lagoon holds one of the world’s largest beds of eelgrass, a rich food source for Pacific brant geese, endangered Steller’s eider sea ducks and other migratory birds.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022

They are forming salt marshes that more closely resemble a golf green than the Arctic tundra -- habitat that happens to be perfect for black brant geese.

From Scientific American • Feb. 7, 2014

It serves as a migratory stop for 98 percent of the world’s Pacific black brant as the bird makes its way south to Mexico for the winter.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2013

In the second room 25 similarly arranged images from the series “On Any Given Day in Spring” take a quite different tack, capturing wide open beaches dotted with flocks of shorebirds called brant.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2012

Then Jenny prick’d up a brant breeght broow, She was as breeght as onny clock; As Moggy always used to do, For fear her Sweet-heart shou’d her mock.

From Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 by D'Urfey, Thomas