English
Etymology
Because this goose nests in the far north, Europeans never saw its chicks, and invented a theory that the goose barnacle is the larval form of the barnacle goose.
Noun
barnacle goose (plural barnacle geese)
- A black and white species of bird within the family Anatidae from the northern hemisphere, Branta leucopsis.
Translations
Branta leucopsis
- Catalan: oca de galta blanca f
- Czech: berneška (cs) f
- Danish: bramgås (da) c
- Dutch: brandgans (nl) f
- Estonian: valgepõsk-lagle
- Faroese: brandgás f
- Finnish: valkoposkihanhi (fi)
- French: bernache nonnette (fr) f
- German: Weißwangengans (de) f, Weisswangengans (de) f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Nonnengans (de) f
- Greek: αγριόχηνα (el) f (agrióchina)
- Hungarian: apácalúd (hu)
- Icelandic: helsingi (is) m
- Irish: gé ghiúrainn f, cadhan m
- Old Irish: gigrann m, giugrann m
- Japanese: 顔白雁 (kaojiro gan)
- Navajo: naalʼeełítsoh łizhinígíí
- Nootka: c̕aʔinwa, c̕eʔinwa
- Northern Sami: vilgesnierčuonjá
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvitkinngås (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: kvitkinngås f
- Old Norse: hrótgás f
- Polish: bernikla białolica (pl) f
- Portuguese: ganso-de-faces-brancas m, bernaca (pt) f, barnacle m
- Romanian: gâscă cu obraz alb f, gâscă călugăriță f
- Russian: каза́рка белощёкая f (kazárka beloščókaja)
- Scottish Gaelic: cathan m, diùraide f
- Spanish: barnacla cariblanca f
- Swedish: vitkindad gås (sv) c
- Turkish: ak yanaklı kaz (tr)
- Welsh: gŵydd wyran f
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