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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.

Then follow the brants, wavey, or laughing geese, which are all smaller varieties.

From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.

Dark swarms of wild ducks were in all the ponds; V-shaped flocks of geese and brants screamed overhead, and down in the slough cranes danced a solemn minuet.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Hubbard, Elbert