Joseph Thayendanegea, 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
a male given name.
First recorded in 1535–45; short for brantgoose, brentgoose; akin to Old Norse brandgās, German Brandgans
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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
In spring and fall, nearly all of the world’s population of emperor and Pacific black brant geese stops to devour the refuge’s eelgrass beds for sustenance.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017
Black brant geese migrate into this region in mid-July to molt, a period when they are unable to fly for about three weeks.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014
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
A differing characteristic, however, is that the white speckling on the sides of the neck of the barnacle brant extends all around the front of the neck in the case of the black sea brant.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
For years Brant even suspected the artist was actually Damien Hirst, who he does buy, but he said Banksy’s opaque identity “worked against him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Anonymity helped the street artist move unchecked but made some collectors wary; ”I feel more comfortable knowing who he is,” says collector Peter Brant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
That changes Saturday with Brant making his 3-year-old debut in the Grade 2 San Felipe, one of four graded stakes on an 11-race card at Santa Anita.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
Between the bank’s additions of Cadence and Veritex, Huntington is “building a powerful financial powerhouse in Texas,” Brant Standridge, who leads the firm’s consumer and regional banking, told analysts on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
On Christmas Eve 1906, from a wind-lashed transmitting station overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at Brant Rock, Massachusetts, a momentous sound was heard.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
It concluded that both would have “major” impacts on brants, tundra swans, emperor geese, bears, fish and, potentially, caribou.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017
But today, the numbers have switched: About 70 percent of the black brants now molt along the coast, having discovered the recent expansion of a new rich food source along the Beaufort Sea.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014
Waal, some, a brace or two o' brants; jest hand me them pincers, Mort.
From Sara, a Princess by Newberry, Fannie E.
By and bye—for they found she was heavier than they expected—the brants let the woman fall too.
From The Strange Story Book by Lang, Mrs. Andrew
The ponds in the low grounds on each side of the river are resorted to by vast quantities of fowls, such as swans, geese, brants, cranes, storks, white gulls, cormorants, and plover.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
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