Atlantic Brant in flight @ Edwin B. Forsythe NWR

Atlantic Brant in flight @ Edwin B. Forsythe NWR

I had never seen, nor heard, of this species of Goose before but the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ has quite a population of them. Taken on Sunday 3-22-2009.

For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe.

For more information on Atlantic Brant, visit the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology.