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Square Mean Photos

@squaremean.bsky.social

"Hey, you! What's up with the camera? Let her sleep in peace!"

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&White

#BarnacleGoose #photography #bird #geese

On short, rather sunlit grass, two barnacle geese. One in the background, in the middle of the picture, out of focus, lies on the grass, eyes closed. One is closer, in focus, to the right of the picture, partly obscuring the other goose. This one is walking.

October 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM

Ariel Trump

@arieltrump.bsky.social

Here & there. #TibetanSandPlover #WhiskeredTern #BarnSwallow
#EurasianOystercatcher
#BarnacleGoose #CommonEider

October 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM

Cheech

@saffacheech.bsky.social

Rob's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BlueWater

#TibetanSandPlover
#WhiskeredTern
#BarnSwallow
#EurasianOystercatcher
#BarnacleGoose
#CommonEider

October 7, 2026 at 5:55 AM

Thea (Learn Birds)

@learnbirds.bsky.social

Nearly every Svalbard barnacle goose on Earth spends winter on one estuary: the Solway Firth. Down to about 300 birds in the 1940s from hunting the flock now tops 40,000.

Learn your UK birds free at learn-birds.com

#birds #UKbirds #barnaclegoose

September 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM

Dinettebsky.app

@natuurlijkeparels.bsky.social

Voor #BirdOfTheDay thema #ABCD de #BarnacleGoose
#Birds #nature #BrantaLeucopsis #Brandgans

September 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM

Photos By Silberbauer

@photosby.silberbauer.dk

Barnacle geese (bramgæs) #barnaclegoose #geese #birdsofinstagram #canoneosr6markii #eosr6markii #canon100500rf #wildlifephotography

February 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM

FelineFinns - Nala & Nero

@felinefinns.bsky.social

🪿Yesterday Nero saw barnacle geese, but this morning there's a gaggle of Canada geese here. However, there is one barnacle goose among them. Does it have some kind of identity crisis?

#nala #goose #geese #canadagoose #barnacle #barnaclegoose #flock #gaggle #identity #IdentityCrisis #quack #meow

July 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM

NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW

@niooknaw.bsky.social

New publication: Long-distance dispersal is asymmetrical with respect to age, sex and breeding latitude in a long-lived monogamous bird. #barnaclegoose #avianmigration #flywaypopulation #longdistancedispersal
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Figure 1 in de Vries et al. (2025): "Locations of the main study colonies for the three subpopulations (a), development of the barnacle goose Russia/Germany and Netherlands flyway population and North Sea and Baltic Sea subpopulations (b) based on population counts, and an overview of the density in ringing effort in the three subpopulations (c). The Barents Sea subpopulation is represented here in red, the Baltic Sea subpopulation in yellow, while the North Sea subpopulation is represented in blue. Data on population sizes were collected from van der Jeugd et al. (2009), Koffijberg et al. (2020), Isaksen (2020), Nagy et al. (2021) and Jensen et al. (2022). Since flyway and subpopulation counts are unavailable after 2006 and incomplete for the Baltic Sea after 2002, these have been supplemented with sizes estimated in an integrated population model, indicated by diamond-shaped dots (Baveco et al., 2020; Jensen et al., 2022)."

September 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM

NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW

@niooknaw.bsky.social

New NIOO publication: More management, less damage? With increasing population size, economic costs of managing geese to minimize yield losses may outweigh benefits, by @BartNolet and others.
#barnaclegoose #goosemanagement #yieldloss
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119949

December 2, 2024 at 11:55 PM

Edrie Elen

@edrieelen.bsky.social

Oh my gosh. Those are AMAZING. 😍😍😍 Mrs. Barnaclegoose!! 😂💚

December 17, 2024 at 4:41 PM

Peter van Tilburg

@pbvantilburg.bsky.social

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Rotund looking rather plump
the Alt theme is #BlueSkies: you see blue sky reflecting 😉

#Black&White #brandgans #Barnaclegoose #goose #Weißwangengans #gans #Brantaleucopsis #Anatidae #waterbirds #reflection #nature #ECK #Wildlife @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social

June 27, 2026 at 11:58 AM

Peter van Tilburg

@pbvantilburg.bsky.social

😊 I found a photo matching the theme of #BirdOfTheDay: #WingsOpenNotFlying #Black&White feathers.

#brandgans #Barnaclegoose #goose #Weißwangengans #gans #Brantaleucopsis #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ThePhotoHour #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Nature #photo@robcrank68.bsky.social‬

March 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM

Square Mean Photos

@squaremean.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #DappledLight, a capture with patchy sunlight or shadows.

A barnacle #goose #gosling in their little interrupted search for food.

#photography #bird #barnaclegoose

On the ground are acorns or at least their shells, brown-beige overall with small strands of green. This is lit by patchy sunlight. A barnacle goose gosling is half in the light, half in the shade, searching for something to eat.

June 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM

Square Mean Photos

@squaremean.bsky.social

#BarnacleGoose gosling seeks shelter under the wings of a parent.

#photography #bird

On short, green grass a barnacle goose sits, facing the camera. The left wing is lifted, as a gosling pushes under it. The behind of the youngling is visible.

May 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM

Gonzo (Rien Parhan)

@yjgonzo.bsky.social

Didn't find the cattle or little egret and no additions to the life list, but it was a nice time being out in the sunny weather at #Arkemheen!
🪶 #birds #birdphotography #DutchNature #GreatEgret #Zilverreiger #BarnacleGoose #Brandgans #NorthernLapwing #Kievit #MuteSwan #Knobbelzwaan #Nijkerk #polder

Great Egret (Ardea alba) that just caught a small fish.

Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) in the grass between pruning sessions so its feathers are still a little puffy.

Three Northern lapwings (Vanellus vanellus) in some shallow water. The iridescent green and purple on their wings comes out nicely in the sunlight.

Three mute swans (Cygnus olor) flying low above the water.

November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM

terra T

@terra-t.bsky.social

Happy sighting of a Barnacle geese gaggle hanging out in a farm pasture near Solway Firth. Love the branta genus; from Canadian to Nene to these, etc.

Neighboring jackdaws share the field.

#bird #birds #birding #barnaclegoose #geese #caerlaverock #dumfriesandgalloway #waterfowel #wildlife

January 27, 2026 at 10:36 AM

Rebecca

@rebeccawarner.bsky.social

No #AprilFools here! There’s a Barnacle Goose in the Pittsburgh area! They live in Europe but do sometimes end up across the pond. This little goose is the first recorded in Allegheny County. Such a joy to watch this bird for a bit! Get home safe! 🪶
#nature #wildlife #birds #goose #barnaclegoose

A barnacle goose spreads its wings wide. In the background, a Canada goose forages.

A barnacle goose walks nonchalantly along the edge of a field, seemingly unaware they’re thousands of miles from home.

April 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Jari Niiranen

@nicuwalker.bsky.social

Valkoposkihanhi / Barnacle Goose
27.09.2025
Branta leucopsis
Valkoposkihanhien muutto on vihdoin alkanut. Tuhansia upeita hanhia päivittäin:

Migration of Barnacle geese has begun.

#valkoposkihanhi
#barnaclegoose
#migrationbirds
#birds
#birdphotography
#olympus
#finland

September 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Kate Ardern@KateAlvanley

@ardernkate.bsky.social

Went out to the car this afternoon to find this unexpected winter visitor hanging out with our resident avian Canadian neighbours .. city centre Liverpool @rspb.bsky.social #barnaclegoose #birdphotography

February 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM

feldsperling.bsky.social

@feldsperling.bsky.social

Barnacle geese at Vombs änger this evening. Vombs ängar is a nature reserve (established 1923) and a Ramsar wetland. #barnaclegoose #vombsängar #skåne