Black Brants are a type of goose, and they seem to display the qualities of all geese, wild or
domestic...wherever one goose goes the other geese follow. I watched a huge flock of Brants and
inevitably, one brant would take the lead and then a number of others would line up behind it and
follow along, all seemingly marching to the same drummer! Black Brant facts: These birds live
mainly along seacoasts, grazing primarily on eelgrass and other marine plants so they rarely stray
from salt water. In the 1930s a disease devastated eelgrass and the brant population dropped. The
brants that survived adapted to an alternative diet such as sea lettuce, sea cabbage, saltmarsh
grass and lawn grass. Eelgrass recovered and today the brant population has risen. ~ Nature Mapping
Program, University of Washington

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