Talk:Brant (goose)

message: The link that I am adding is to the free-access website of the Internet Bird Collection (IBC)at http://www.hbw.com/ibc/. The IBC is specialized in videos of birds (with almost 15,000 videos of more than 3,500 species), which are posted by collaborators who do so generously free of charge. Following the same criteria as many other links for photos and videos that already exist in Wikipedia, it is a way to complement and enrich the information that is given about birds. I hope that there will not be any problem in adding the aforementioned link.Amberta 07:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link 

message: Should Black Brant be merged here? It is only one subspecies in a cline. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 15:43, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide evidence of that? SP-KP (talk) 19:18, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

text: I vote for the merge. jw (talk) 13:27, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

text: some time ago, you suggested merging Black brant here ... What is your take today? -- jw (talk) 21:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: I've removed this:
: The spelling "Brant" is the original one, with "Brent" being a later folk-etymological idea that it was derived from a classical Greek waterbird name brenthos. It is in fact onomatopoeic, derived from the guttural call note of the species. For the origin of the scientific name bernicla, see Barnacle Goose.
which is unreferenced. AHD s.v. brant gives "Variant of brent(-goose), possibly from Middle English brende, brindled". jnestorius(talk) 20:42, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Fulvous Whistling Duck which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 13:30, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Right now this page seems to imply that this goose was previously believed to be a crustacean-- that seems unlikely.  Jimfbleak, I think that was your edit? Is the phrasing there unclear?
Heliopolisfirebirdii (talk) 05:05, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Heliopolisfirebirdii, there are multiple sources for that myth, which can can be dated back to at least the 12th century, including the Oxford English Dictionary  and Birds Britannica which I have before me. Gerald of Wales claimed to have seen these birds hanging down from pieces of timber, and since these birds were absent from Britain in summer, this had some credibility. William Turner accepted it, and John Gerard claimed to have seen the birds emerging from their shells. Although there were always doubters, such as Frederick II, the legend persisted until the end of the 18th century. In County Kerry, until relatively recently, Catholics could eat this bird on a Friday because it counted as fish. These comments are based on Birds Britannica, pp. 78–80, but there are many other sources; see also goose barnacle. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:00, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, that's really interesting. Thanks for your edit. Do you think that should have its own section now? Heliopolisfirebirdii (talk) 18:36, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Heliopolisfirebirdii, I'm not sure whether it's a bit of a distraction from the bird itself. Perhaps leave it for a few days to see if anyone watching picks up this thread? I'll have more time then to add sources then, if we go ahead Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:50, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me Heliopolisfirebirdii (talk) 19:17, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Jimfbleak I think we should go ahead and move it down. Do you have more sources you wanted to add? Heliopolisfirebirdii (talk) 00:59, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No, go ahead, thanks Jimfbleak (talk) 13:44, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crustacean? 

message: The page Black brant (B.b.nigricans) contains only minimal information, some which is useful on this page where there is already a lot more information concerning the Black brant.  In addition the other subspecies (Light-bellied B.b.hrota, dark-belliedB.b.bernicla) and one variety (Grey-bellied), which are of equal importance worldwide, are fully described here, and do not have pages of their own. None of the watchers or visitors to the Black brant page have given any feedback (positive or negative) to my proposal of a year ago (Jul 2019). -- jw (talk) 13:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I am going to be bold and proceed with the following steps. jw(talk) 13:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

text: # redirect from Black brant to Brant goose -- done -- jw (talk) 13:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

text: # merge some of the text into Brant goose -- done -- jw (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

text: # merge some of the references into Brant goose -- done -- jw (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

text: # remove text and references from Black brant, leaving only the redirect -- TBD-- jw(talk) 13:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  merging Black Brant into this article  

message: The too of this page should point to Brant disambiguation, not just to Black Brant rocket 77.204.106.160 (talk) 17:31, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black Brant rocket // disambiguation