NOTES: OCCURRENCE OF INTERGRADE BRANT IN OREGON

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Published: 1974-07-01

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WAYNE HOFFMAN
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
WILLIAM P. ELLIOTT
Air Resources Laboratories (R32), National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adm., 8060 13th Street, Silver Spring, Md. 20910

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On 19 July 1973 two small geese of the Branta bernicla species complex were found feeding on Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Yaquina Bay, Lincoln County, Oregon. Since the occurrence of Brant of any form is most unusual on the Pacific Coast in midsummer (Barnard 1973, Einarsen 1965) the birds were observed quite carefully.

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Vol. 5 No. 3 (1974)

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WAYNE HOFFMAN, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331

On 19 July 1973 two small geese of the Branta bernicla species complex were found feeding on Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Yaquina Bay, Lincoln County, Oregon. Since the occurrence of Brant of any form is most unusual on the Pacific Coast in midsummer (Barnard 1973, Einarsen 1965) the birds were observed quite carefully.