| 单词 | brant |
| 例句 | Black brants, which winter here by the thousands, bob on the harbor. Hitchcock’s ‘Birds’ and the real birds of California’s Bodega Bay 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z 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. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z The road would traverse a narrow isthmus densely dotted with shallow fresh water ponds that separates lagoons holding the world’s largest eel grass beds vital to emperor geese, brant and eiders. Environment: Alaskan wilderness 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z 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. Appeals court reverses ruling halting Alaska refuge road 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Teshekpuk Lake serves as molting area for one-fifth of the world’s Pacific black brant and calving grounds for tens of thousands of caribou each summer. Trump administration seeks to drill on more than two-thirds of nation’s largest swath of public land 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Gulls, ducks and brants, a type of goose, in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens.Credit... Geese May Not Inspire You, but They Certainly Take Your Mind Off the Virus 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z It is a rich feeding ground for hundreds of thousands of waterfowl, including the entire population of Pacific black brant. Alaska Editorials 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z In spring and fall, nearly the entire global population of emperor and Pacific black brant geese consume the refuge’s eelgrass. Feds strike deal with Alaskan village for road through National Wildlife Refuge 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z It concluded that both would have “major” impacts on brants, tundra swans, emperor geese, bears, fish and, potentially, caribou. Interior looks at behind-the-scenes land swap to allow road through wildlife refuge 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Spragens said the direct cause of the variable Skagit brant numbers are unknown, but may be influenced by increasing numbers of brant wintering in southwest Alaska, indicating that wintering distribution shifts may be occurring. Liberal brant hunting season in Skagit County begins this weekend 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z They include the 150-square-mile Izembek Lagoon, which provides one of the world’s largest beds of eelgrass, a rich food source for Pacific brant, endangered Steller’s eiders and other migratory birds. Alaska village pins hopes for road through federal refuge on Trump 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Interior Secretary Sally Jewell first denied the road proposal in December 2013, citing potential for "irreversible damage" to wildlife which depend on the refuge, particularly the Pacific black brant. Federal judge rejects Alaska bid to allow wildlife refuge road 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z She cited the potential for "irreversible damage" to wildlife that depend on the refuge, a significant habitat for shorebirds and waterfowl, including the Pacific black brant. Tiny Alaska fishing village at center of political fight over road 2014-05-06T13:32:54Z 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. Interior looks at behind-the-scenes land swap to allow road through wildlife refuge 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z 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. Climate Change Proves a Survival Experiment for Wildlife 2014-02-07T16:25:00Z The brant goose numbers in Skagit County are high enough to open an eight-day hunt that began Saturday with a bag limit of two birds daily. Clammers finding success, and it should continue 2014-01-11T04:43:54Z 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. Sally Jewell’s nomination as interior secretary advances 2013-03-22T02:02:00Z Nearly every Pacific black brant in the world goes through there. Interior secretary nomination becomes embroiled in fight over Alaska refuge 2013-02-24T20:39:55Z Hunters need to record their information immediately after taking a brant, and return the report by Feb. 15. Brant goose hunters may be in store for good year 2013-01-05T02:53:04Z Black brant geese migrate into this region in mid-July to molt, a period when they are unable to fly for about three weeks. Climate Change Proves a Survival Experiment for Wildlife 2014-02-07T16:25:00Z Bay salt water rushed into a shallow freshwater pond created for birds such as the American black duck and Atlantic brant. Sandy’s damage to wildlife refuges adds to questions about federal spending 2012-11-19T01:03:00Z The hunters brought in two deer, a crane, some geese and ducks, and several brant. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z It was no goose, or brant, or fish-loving merganser, or inland wandering saddleback gull that flew in such a fashion. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z "Historically a lot of brant will stop there in the fall and move south, but now many are staying up there in the winter," Kraege said. Brant goose hunters may be in store for good year 2013-01-05T02:53:04Z 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. Climate Change Proves a Survival Experiment for Wildlife 2014-02-07T16:25:00Z Here are to be found every species known to the Eastern states, except the barnacle brant of the Atlantic. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z 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. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Just below the level of Jack's Rake there are some very 'brant and slape' inclines of wet or muddy rock, which most people consider the worst part of the climb. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Hunters who harvest a brant fitted with a colored leg band should report the leg band's numbers and color by calling 800-327-BAND or online at www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/bblretrv. Brant goose hunters may be in store for good year 2013-01-05T02:53:04Z As with black brant geese and polar bears, perhaps not enough. Climate Change Proves a Survival Experiment for Wildlife 2014-02-07T16:25:00Z The cackling goose, known also as brown brant and gray brant, is the most common of the four varieties and much the smallest. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z The hunters all returned hungry, and drenched with rain; having seen neither deer nor elk, and the swans and brants too shy to be approached. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z But the brants did not know this, and as soon as they heard her they flew down and carried her off on their wings. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z The duck, goose, and brant, often rose up before us, and lighted in the stream again below us; and we thus drove them, without intending it, for miles. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z He brought home geese and ducks and brant and small sea birds, and gave them to his mother for food. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z The black sea brant is another purely Pacific Coast species, found nowhere else except as a straggler. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z There has been no seeming diminution in number of either brant or geese—simply a change in their feeding grounds. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Of course she did not mean anything, any more than when she repeated the same words on seeing the sand-cranes overhead, or the brants which presently came past. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z Below was the brant steep, dark and jagged, and quivering in the deepening gloom, and the sea-birds were darting through the mid-air like bats in the dark. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z And of a sudden crying from the brant, The blended voices of two women pant;— And the wind may moan, and laugh the breeze, For grief and joy mingle their ecstasies. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z 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. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z In 1869, and prior to that date, brants and wild geese—or honkers—were very plentiful in the Puget Sound basin. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z By and bye—for they found she was heavier than they expected—the brants let the woman fall too. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z In the still air of a prairie morning their hysterical cackle rose like the crying of an indignant band of brant. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z After taking a brant, hunters are required to record their harvest information immediately, and report them by Feb. 15. Summit East ski and snowboard area getting close to opening 2011-01-09T00:25:05Z I only know of the following places within the Pacific Coast shooting grounds where the black sea brant is found. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z State Fish and Wildlife will conduct aerial surveys to assess the number of brant in Skagit County and will decide whether to open a hunting season by early this month. Barbless hooks rule delayed for fishing on Columbia 2011-01-02T02:19:04Z We omit further notice of other varieties; and of the swan, brant, pigeons, &c., as not profitable for general rearing, and only suited to ornamental grounds. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Its course lay across Sty Head Pass, a bleak and 'brant' place, where the winds are often high. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Hunters who bag a brant with a fitted colored leg band should report the leg band's numbers and color at 800-327-BAND or www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/bblretrv/. Summit East ski and snowboard area getting close to opening 2011-01-09T00:25:05Z Of all birds that fall to the aim of the sportsman, the black sea brant is the most difficult to get within range of. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Usually more than 10,000 brant hole up in the winter on northern Puget Sound waters annually, and at least 6,000 brant must be counted in Skagit County before hunting is allowed there. Barbless hooks rule delayed for fishing on Columbia 2011-01-02T02:19:04Z There are such a multitude of swans, geese, brants, sheldrakes, ducks of several sorts, mallard, teal, blewings, and many other kinds of water fowl, that the plenty of them is incredible. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts September waned, and the laggard rear-guard of the brant and Hutchins geese, riding the first stinging northers, passed south in the wake of the wavies. The Whelps of the Wolf Hunters who fail to report will be ineligible to hunt brant in the 2011-2012 season. Summit East ski and snowboard area getting close to opening 2011-01-09T00:25:05Z "Pishnekuh!" cried Pau-Puk-Keewis, "Pishnekuh! my brothers!" said he, 200"Change me to a brant with plumage, With a shining neck and feathers, Make me large, and make me larger, Ten times larger than the others." The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem In the spring time, great numbers of wild ducks, geese and brant were found in all the ponds and marshes; in the woody ground the wild turkey, the pheasant and the quail. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 The great hunters brought the King the blood of the white brant to drink, and washed his feet in the milk of mares and cows. The Chinese Fairy Book We were chiefly occupied in hunting, and were able to procure three deer, four brant, and two ducks; and also saw some signs of elk. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers The hunting season adopted in August was contingent on a count of at least 6,000 brant in Skagit County. Summit East ski and snowboard area getting close to opening 2011-01-09T00:25:05Z There was a salt-water lake, bordered by a weedy scar, not far off, and he might find some brant geese or ducks. Partners of the Out-Trail It was a wild ride, and all day we climbed over low swells, passing little lakes covered with geese and brant, practically the only living things. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Straightway they changed him into an enormous brant, and, with a whirr of wings, the whole flock rose in the air and flew northward. The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose On the sand-bars, which here very much obstructed the course of the river, great number of geese, swans, brants, and ducks of different kinds were seen. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The brant hunting dates in Skagit County are: Jan. 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 26, 29 and 30. Summit East ski and snowboard area getting close to opening 2011-01-09T00:25:05Z At the next shot he actually bagged a brant, and, what was better, he believed he had "got the hang" of the business, so that he could hunt with some success. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives With a party of friends we were now in advance of the train, and during the day shot geese, brant, ducks and snipes. History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Soon after a black brant passed, and Raven cried out as before, but the brant flew on. A Treasury of Eskimo Tales A cloud of black ducks circled gracefully overhead and slowly spread out on their feeding grounds beyond the brant. The Root of Evil Near our settlement there was an abundance of wild game - deer, turkey, prairie chickens, ducks, geese, brant, and squirrels - which gave us much of our food during our stay. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Just as the steamboat came within hailing distance of the Isabel, a couple of brant fortunately flew over, and Dan fired. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives It was indeed a grand sight to see thousands of white brant flying between us and the burned and blackened hills. History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry We had also a pair of Canada geese; a snow-goose, and three brant,—these last being the produce of a single shot. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire As Stuart stepped on deck a great flock of thousands of brant swept in from sea and pitched on the bar beyond the channel. The Root of Evil The first moment he had to look about him, Grasshopper, in the shape of a big brant, was aware that he was jammed into a large hollow tree. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends On coming to a large lake, the shore of which was sandy, he saw a large flock of brant, and, speaking to them, he asked them to turn him into a brant. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian Then follow the brants, wavey, or laughing geese, which are all smaller varieties. Winter Adventures of Three Boys His spirit, escaping, flew upwards, and prayed the storm-fools to make him a “brant” ten times their own size. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The hunting-party coming back, two or three hours after, laden with eggs and brant geese, awoke me. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' "Very well," they answered; and he soon found himself a large brant, all the others standing gazing in astonishment at his great size. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends “Very well,” replied the brant, and he soon found himself one of them, of prodigious size, all the others looking on at him in amazement. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian I surprised him early one winter morning eating a brant, which he had caught asleep on the shore. Ways of Wood Folk When Hiawatha arrived, the “brant” could not forbear looking at him; and immediately he fell to earth, and Hiawatha transformed him into an eagle. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 We saw vast quantities of buffaloe, elk, deer, principally of the long tailed kind, antelopes, beaver, geese, ducks, brant, and some swan. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. It was brant from side to side, and as rugged as steep. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance To get backward or forward was impossible, and there he remained until his brant life was ended by starvation. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian One day last March the sun shone out bright and warm; in the afternoon the first frogs began to tune up, cr-r-r-runk, cr-r-runk-a-runk-runk, like a flock of brant in the distance. Ways of Wood Folk 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. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Large flocks of geese and brant, and also a few ducks are passing towards the south. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. The leaden sky that hung low and dense had been relieved only by the white rolling mists that capped the fells and swept at intervals down their brant and rugged sides. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance This cry resembles in a very striking degree the utterances of an old veteran brant, or wild-goose, when speeding northward in the spring to escape a warm wave from the south. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Last year only one-half the usual number of ducks and geese were killed; and already many "professional" duck and brant shooters have abandoned the business because the commission merchants no longer will buy dead birds. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation And in the winter these prairies were just flooded with geese and brant. A Texas Matchmaker The birds we saw were the white gulls and the brant which were flying to the southward in large flocks. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. How black against the moon loomed the brant walls of the Castle Rock across the vale! The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance A peculiar and indescribable inflection would lead one, hearing and not seeing these boatmen, to fancy himself listening to a flight of brants in stormy weather. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Enough geese, ducks, brant, quail, ruffed grouse, prairie chickens, heath hens and wild pigeons have been butchered by gunners and netters for "the market" to have stocked the whole world. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation In the early morning, sharply turning a corner, we flush a mixed family of water-fowl—gulls in great variety, something that looks like a brant, and a loon with its uncanny laughter. The New North Myriads of wild geese, brant, and ducks rose up screaming at our approach. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest They rolled with heavy thuds down the brant sides of the fell—down, down, down. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance We had the brant roasted on a stick for supper. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers They should be as follows: No squirrels, doves or shore birds; six quail, five woodcock, ten coots, ten rail, ten ducks, three geese and three brant, with a total limit of ten waterfowl per day. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation "Pishnekuh!" cried Pau-Puk-Keewis, "Pishnekuh! my brothers!" said he, "Change me to a brant with plumage, With a shining neck and feathers, Make me large, and make me larger, Ten times larger than the others." The Song of Hiawatha I see no difference between this bird and that called simply the brant, common to the lakes the Ohio and Mississippi &c. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 We saw the greatest number of feathered game—enormous flocks of geese, brant, and ducks. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Mr. Johnston shot at a flight of brant, and brought down one. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers It is now time to protect the white goose and brant. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation There were wild geese and brant, black ducks and wood-ducks, and all the smaller kinds down to teal and whistlers. Algonquin Legends of New England I could not Sleep for the noise kept by the Swans, Geese, white & black brant, Ducks &c. on a opposit base, & Sand hill Crane, they were emensely numerous and their noise horrid. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 "Burt has occasionally shot wild-geese—we have one mounted there—but I do not know what a brant is, nor much about its habits," she added. Nature's Serial Story We also saw a mink, and a flock of brant. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Especially is the shooting of plover, sandpiper, marsh and beach birds, rail, duck, geese and brant from September 1, to April 15, an outrage. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation As the tide rapidly fell, a great flock of black brant fluttered by her, screaming and crying. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers I suped on brant this evening with a little pounded fish. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 A miserable little weasel killed three fine brant geese, purely for the love of murder; and then he departed this life by the powder-and-lead route. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations We have witnessed the long-drawn flight of swans, brant, and cranes, towards the south. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers One fly in the ointment is—spring shooting; which for ducks, geese and brant continues from September 1 to April 20. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Snipe and reed birds were noisy in the hollows and from the misty tundra lakes came the honking of brant. The Spoilers Great numbers of the dark brant passing Southerley, the white yet Stationary, no gees & Swan to be Seen. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Festing heard in fancy the brant's changing cry that always filled him with unrest, but the letter in his hand was a clearer call. The Girl from Keller's High in the darkening sky the long arrow-headed lines of geese and 'brant' pointed towards the upland. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales We saw vast quantities of buffalo, elk, deer,—principally of the long-tailed kind,—antelope, beaver, geese, ducks, brant, and some swan. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 In the frosty autumnal mornings, when the brant were flocking in the marshes at the head of the bay, they would go out hunting together in a skiff. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature The hunters all returned hungry and drenched with rain, having seen neither deer nor elk, and the swan and brant were too shy to be approached. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 The brant and bernicle beat their way North against the roaring winds, and man with a different instinct pressed on towards the West. The Girl from Keller's After amusing himself for some time on the beach, he returned towards the village, and shot on his way two brant. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 The hunters were sent out, and killed three deer, four brant, and three ducks. 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