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	Barnacle Goose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite its superficial outward similarity to the Brent Goose, genetic analysis has shown it is an eastern deriative of the Cackling Goose lineage.
		Barnacle Geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic.
		Barnacle Geese frequently build their nests high on mountain cliffs; away from predators (primarily Arctic Foxes and Polar Bears) but also away from food.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barnacle_Goose (397 words)

	Gooseneck barnacle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gooseneck barnacles are filter-feeding crustaceans that lives attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone.
		Unlike most other types of barnacles, intertidal gooseneck barnacles depend on water motion rather than the movement of their cirri for feeding, and are therefore found only on exposed or moderately exposed coasts.
		Goose barnacles are generally steamed in their shells above stock or seasoned wine and served hot at the table.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goose_barnacle (281 words)

	Goose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae.
		In the West, farmyard geese are descended from the Greylag, but in Asia the swan goose has been farmed for at least as long.
		Goose in its origins is one of the oldest words of the Indo-European languages, the modern names deriving from the proto-Indo-European root, ghans, hence Sanskrit hamsa (feminine hamsii), Latin anser, Greek khén etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goose (452 words)

	Barnacle Goose: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The brent goose (branta bernicla) is a goose of the genus branta, known in north america as brant....
		A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass cirripedia in the subphylum crustacea and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobst...
		The bar-headed goose (anser indicus) is a goose which breeds in central asia and migrates over the himalayas to winter in the wetlands of india....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/barnacle_goose.htm (1070 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Barnacle goose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters.
		Barnacles were first fully studied and classified by Charles Darwin, as a suggestion of his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, in his quest for understanding his ongoining development of the theory of evolution and natural selection.
		Since barnacles are seafood, the Barnacle Goose was counted as a fish, and could be eaten by Catholics on Fridays, when meat used to be forbidden.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Barnacle-goose (1481 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Journal: Barnacles: We're stuck with them - December 1995
		It was not known that the barnacle goose spent its summers in the Arctic.
		At one time it was theorized that the adult barnacle goose grew from little shells attached to trees and small barnacles on driftwood by the seashore.
		Barnacle larvae are a favorite and abundant food source for many young fish and are consumed in large numbers.
	www.bayjournal.com /article.cfm?article=1449&FONT=2 (883 words)

	barnacle. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At that time it did not refer to the crustacean, as it does nowadays, but rather to a species of waterfowl presently known as the barnacle goose; more than 300 years went by before barnacle was used to refer to the crustacean.
		The barnacle goose breeds in the Arctic, a fact not known for a long time; since no one ever witnessed the bird breeding, it was thought to be spontaneously generated from trees along the shore, or from rotting wood.
		Wood that has been in the ocean for any length of time is often dotted with barnacles, and it was natural for people to believe that the crustaceans were also engendered directly from the wood, like the geese.
	www.bartleby.com /61/18/B0081800.html (396 words)

	Database Lookup Results
		Fox, A. and Bergersen, L. (2005) Lack of competition between barnacle geese Branta leucopsis and pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus during the pre-breeding period in Svalbard.
		Mosbech, A. and Glahder, C. (1991) Assessment of the impact of helicopter disturbance on moulting pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus and barnacle geese Branta leucopsis in Jameson Land, Greenland.
		Steen, J. and Gabrielsen, G. (1986) Thermogenesis in newly hatched eider (Somateria mollissima) and long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) ducklings and barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) goslings.
	www.goose.org /cgi-bin/search_key.pl?searchkey=barnacle&boolean=AND (3871 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Goose barnacle
		The goose barnacle is white or grey and is roughly heart shaped.
		Goose barnacles feed on plankton and small crustaceans such as copepods, isopods and amphipods.
		Goose barnacles are attached to surfaces by a flexible stalk and are unable to move from the point they are fixed to.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/423.shtml (296 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Program - Barnacle
		There are two major groups of barnacles: Balanomorpha, or acorn barnacles, which attach directly to a firm surface, and Lepadomorpha, or goose barnacles, which live in the ocean and attach gregariously to floating objects by a long purplish-fl, rubbery stalk.
		The bay barnacle is white, about 1/4 inch high and 1/2 inch wide, similarly constructed, preferring to attach to rocks, pilings oyster shells and other hard-shelled animals in brackish estuaries, in a wider range of depths, from shallow water to 120 feet deep.
		Barnacle larvae are distinguished by two stages, the nauplii stage, in which the larvae appears to be triangular and resembles the larvae of a copepod, with two small spiky appendages.
	www.chesapeakebay.net /barnacle.htm (872 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Although barnacles have long been regarded as costly fouling agents, scientists are now making use of their remarkable capacity to accumulate concentrations of poisonous metals to assist in the management of environmental pollution.
		Goose, or stalked, barnacles are the less common of the two varieties and are to be found living in the ocean, attached to pieces of wood or ships.
		A goose barnacle, whilst ideal for the deep ocean, could not survive in the intertidal zone: the loss of water from the stalk would ensure its rapid desiccation on the shore, and wave action would cause it to beat itself to death.
	www.fathom.com /feature/121900 (2176 words)

	597barnacle.html
		Barnacles are animals that are related to shrimp and lobsters.
		If barnacles are allowed to accumulate on a ship's hull, the ship will travel slower in the water, or it will have to burn more fuel to keep up its speed, than it would otherwise.
		During the later, cyprides stage they are attracted to other barnacles and use their front two antennae to crawl to a likely spot, where they will glue themselves and remain for life.
	seagrant.gso.uri.edu /factsheets/597barnacle.html (725 words)

	Brleu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When the goose counts in Sweden started in the seventies only single individuals and small groups of Barnacle Geese were counted In some years up to a few hundred Barnacle Geese were counted in south Sweden (1978, 1987, 1989 and 1991).
		During the nineties there was a change of habits in the Barnacle Geese and large flocks were regularly seen in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden during the autumn, especially in the Foteviken area in the southwest with large shore meadows but also in inland areas.
		At the October count in 1993 4800 Barnacle Geese were counted, whereas autumn maxima were 4500 and 1600 at the goose counts in 1996 and 1997, respectively.
	www.biol.lu.se /zooekologi/waterfowl/GooseInv/G_ARTER/brleu.htm (346 words)

	barnacle - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about barnacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Acorn barnacles, such as Chthalamus stellatus, are a familiar sight on rocky seashores between the tidemarks, where they are the most abundant life form.
		The larger barnacles are the most advanced in age.
		Barnacles include the stalked goose barnacle Lepas anatifera found on ships' bottoms, and the acorn barnacles, such as Balanus balanoides, common on rocks.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /barnacle (285 words)

	Section B - Barnacles
		Barnacles are an entirely marine group of crustaceans with bodies that have been hugely modified for their sessile way of life.
		Although barnacles are thought to be sedentary and immobile, some make epic ocean voyages as a passenger on larger, migratory animals such as whales, or oceanic flotsam such as litter, wood, pumice stone from volcanic eruptions and even invertebrates that float on the surface of the open ocean.
		Barnacles capture food that is proportional to their size, that is, larger barnacles probably eat larger particles, and smaller one filter out smaller particles.
	www.reef.edu.au /asp_pages/secb.asp?FormNo=40 (1185 words)

	Geese
		The three isolated Barnacle goose populations have their breeding grounds on the east coast of Greenland, on Spitzbergen and on Nova Zembla.
		The Taiga bean goose breeds in marshes and bogs of the Eurasian taigas.
		The Taiga bean goose is a brownish bird, 66-84 cm long, its bill is orange-yellow with a litle fl at the base and tip and sometimes with a small white edge at the base.
	www.dierinbeeld.nl /animal_files/birds/goose (1343 words)

	Fish Stocks of the Pacific Coast \| Invertebrates \| Goose Barnacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The goose barnacle (Pollicipes polymerus) ranges from southern Alaska to Baja California on the mid-intertidal zone on exposed or semi-exposed rocky coasts.
		Goose barnacles have been commercially harvested sporadically since the 1970s, and continuously since 1985.
		Goose barnacles have long been recognized as a delicacy in Spain, Portugal and France.
	www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /publications/speciesbook/invertebrates/barnacle.html (916 words)

	Goose barnacle - Lepas anatifera: More Information - ARKive
		Goose barnacles gave rise to one of the strangest of animal beliefs.
		Goose barnacles are marine crustaceans but, unlike many other members of their class, they are hermaphrodites, meaning that the animal has both male and female sexual organs.
		Goose barnacles are common around the British coast and, apart from the ever-present threat of marine pollution, are not presently endangered.
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/invertebrates_marine/Lepas_anatifera/more_info.html (483 words)

	Barnacle Goose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barnacle Geese are so named because in the past people believed that the birds, who suddenly arrived, seemingly from nowhere, in the Autumn, and disappeared just as mysteriously in the Spring, actually hatched from Barnacles along the seashore!
		Barnacle Geese are now protected by European Law, with protection extending both to their summer breeding grounds and to their wintering grounds along the Solway Firth.
		Barnacle Goose numbers on the Solway have risen from less than 300 fifty years ago, to over 23,000 today.
	www.wildlifetrust.org.uk /scottish/www/d&g/so4barny.htm (216 words)

	article_love_barnacles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Spanish are crazy about their seafood, so when the demand for Spanish barnacles exceeded the supply, importers began looking around for where they could get goose barnacles.
		Canadian goose barnacles not only satisfied the finicky Spanish consumer, but were also more plentiful as overfishing began to limit the supply of Spanish barnacles.
		Unfortunately for Canadian goose barnacle harvesters and for Spanish importers, the Canadian fishery was closed in 1999.
	www.westcoastaquatic.ca /article_love_barnacles.htm (697 words)

	Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Beach - Goose Barnacle
		Goose Barnacles get their common name from their feathery cirri that look a bit like the feathers of a bird.
		When the barnacles drifted ashore attached to logs it was thought that they were the eggs of geese.
		Goose Barnacles poke their feathery cirri out of their shells and use them to push water towards their mouth.
	www.amonline.net.au /wild_kids/seashores/goose_barnacle.htm (142 words)

	Barnacle goose - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Barnacle goose - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		A medium-sized, sociable goose, with fl head, neck and breast with creamy-white face, which contrasts with the white belly, blue-grey barred back and fl tail.
		Barnacle geese were originally thought to grow from barnacles (shellfish).
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/b/barnaclegoose/index.asp (168 words)

	barnacle - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Any of various marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia that in the adult stage form a hard shell and remain attached to submerged surfaces, such as rocks and ships' bottoms.
		This led one writer in 1678 to comment on the "multitudes of little Shells; having within them little Birds perfectly shap'd, supposed to be Barnacles [that is, barnacle geese]." In popular conception the two creatures were thus closely linked.
		Over time the crustacean became the central referent of the word, and the bird was called the barnacle goose for clarity, making barnacle goose an early example of what we now call a retronym.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/b/b0081800.html (322 words)

	Harteman Wildfowl - Barnacle goose
		This attractive little goose is a close relative of the familiar Canada Goose.
		Barnacle Geese breed in Greenland and on a few small north Atlantic islands.
		Barnacle Geese begin to lay their clutch of 4 to 6 eggs in late may and early June.
	www.harteman.nl /omnibus/anseriformes/geese/barnacle.html (359 words)

	Barnacle - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Barnacle, popular name for members of a class of crustaceans.
		The name was originally applied to the barnacle goose of northern Europe, and its...
		Scientific classification: The brent goose belongs to the family Anatidae of the order Anseriformes.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Barnacle.html (85 words)

	Barnacle Goose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		bernicla) and the goose barnacle Lepas anatifera come from the old fable that Geese were produced from barnacles (Lepadidae) organisms that grow on timber exposed salt water.
		The legend was also because it enabled Catholics to classify these geese as fish therefore to eat their flesh during Lent.
		The Barnacle Goose is easily identified by largely fl plumage and white face.
	www.freeglossary.com /Barnacle_goose (405 words)

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		The Greenland Barnacle Goose breeds in northeast Greenland and winters exclusively in Britain and Ireland, primarily on Hebridean Islands off western Scotland, and as far north as Orkney, and the western coast of Ireland, again mainly on remote islands.
		The Svalbard Barnacle Goose breeds in the Svalbard archipelago and winters almost entirely on the Solway Firth, primarily on the Scottish side, though small numbers remain through the winter at some staging sites in northeast Scotland.
		In addition, a small population of Naturalised Barnacle Geese is resident in southern Britain, probably derived mainly from escaped and released birds.
	www.wwt.org.uk /research/monitoring/barnacle.asp (204 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Barnacle Goose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After studying them as long as he cared to, he was convinced they were Barnacle Geese.
		Kortright (1942) states that the Barnacle Goose is less inclined to associate with other geese than is any other goose species and so readily approachable that it is known as the "fool" among geese.
		The Barnacle Goose is an Old World species that breeds in Greenland.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0050.htm (202 words)

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