Identifier: birdsnatureinnat04unse (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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t feeds constantly, tearing up the plantsby the roots from the muddy flats. Unlike the sea ducks, it does not dive for itsfood and it is said that it will never dive except when wounded. It passes thenight hours floating on deep water in the open sea. It is a noisy bird and quarrel-some with its kind. Its note is hoarse and honking, and when a flock gabbles in company, asthey often do when feeding, the sound produced cannot be described better thanto call it a perfect din. It is said that the nest of the Black Brant is usually situated in a depressionin the ground and consists of grasses and moss lined with down. Both the Black Brant and its eastern relative (Branta bernicla) are some-times called barnacle geese. This name is said to have had its origin in a fablewhich narrates that they were developed out of barnacles attached to wood in thesea. Dr. Coues says that the name Brant means burnt, and that it was given tothese birds because of their dark color which suggests charring. 756
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