barnacle goose

The following habitats are found across the Barnacle goose distribution range.

The barnacle goose has a black chest, white face and a grey back with bars across it.

Barnacle Geese often build their nests high on mountain cliffs.

It is an important winter roosting site for Barnacle Geese.

Barnacles were thought to be the embryos of a Barnacle Goose.

South Walls is a popular stopping off place for Barnacle Geese.

Similar misconceptions existed regarding the breeding of Barnacle geese.

Keep an eye open and you may spot a barnacle goose or a Bewick's swan.

Smash a barnacle with a stone and you will see inside the shape from which the beautiful barnacle goose takes its name.

In the Middle Ages people believed barnacle geese hatched from goose barnacles.

Barnacle geese appear each winter.

There's one super bit at the end where he tells you very seriously how barnacle geese are hatched out of barnacles.'

The Barnacle Goose differs in having a black breast and grey, rather than brownish, body plumage.

It is an internationally important wintering site for waterfowl and wading birds, including the Barnacle Goose.

A flock of barnacle geese grazing (2:20)

Barnacle geese migrate to Britain and Ireland in the winter, to escape the harsher...

Switha has many storm-petrel burrows and is the winter home to a large colony of barnacle geese.

It is relatively flat and featureless, and is used as a staging post by barnacle geese.

"There are likewise here many birds called barnacles,(barnacle geese) which nature produces in a wonderful manner, out of her ordinary course.

Virtually the entire Svalbard population of Barnacle Goose (roughly 24,000) overwinters here.

On the cliff below, barnacle geese were already incubating their clutches of eggs, still surrounded by the brilliant white of snow.

Barnacle Geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic.

The ripened fruit would then release "barnacle geese" that would live in the water, growing to mature geese.

The islands are also home to a number of bird species- the geese of the island's name are barnacle geese.

Goose barnacles Goose barnacles are odd-looking crustaceans usually found in quite deep water.