Typical birds in Dithmarschen are Dunlin, Red Knot, Bar-tailed Godwit, Lapwings, Charadriidae, Eurasian Oystercatcher, many species of Anatinae-and Gulls, Terns, Sandwich Tern, Pied Avocet, Brent Goose and Barnacle Goose.

Almost the entire Svalbard population of Barnacle Goose overwinters in the Solway Firth area, with many of the birds often at Caerlaverock for part or all of the winter ; their protection by the reserve has enabled the population to recover from just 500 birds in the 1940s, to over 25, 000 now.

Virtually the entire Svalbard population of Barnacle Goose ( roughly 24, 000 ) overwinters here.

It is an internationally important wintering site for waterfowl and wading birds, including the Barnacle Goose.

The Barnacle Goose: Branta leucopsis

For example, the idea that a variety of bird known as the Barnacle Goose emerged from a crustacean known as the Goose Barnacle, had implications on the practice of fasting during Lent.

The Barnacle Goose ( Branta leucopsis ) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.

The Barnacle Goose is a medium-sized goose, long, with a wingspan of and a body mass of.

The Barnacle Goose is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

The natural history of Barnacle Goose was long surrounded with a legend claiming that they were born of driftwood:

Based on these legends — indeed, the legends may have been invented for this purpose — some Irish clerics considered Barnacle Goose flesh to be acceptable fast day food, a practice that was criticized by a contemporary Welsh author:

* Barnacle Goose videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

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A flock of Barnacle Goose | Barnacle Geese during autumn migration

* Branta leucopsis Barnacle Goose

The first was Hue and Cry in 1947 and the last Barnacle Bill in 1956.

According to Sveriges ornitologiska förening the geese began breeding in Sweden in 71, and according to Skansen it was 40 years ago, more or less, when the entire population of Barnacle Geese left in the autumn to return in spring, soon after they began breeding in the wild.

Joyce chose the date as it was the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle ; they walked to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend.

A third play, Barnacle Wood, was produced in Montreal, also by infinitheatre, in March 2004.

Visage, now without Ure, McGeoch and Adamson ( who continued collaborating with Pete Shelley, and joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ) but now with the addition of bassist Steve Barnacle, recorded the stand-alone single " Pleasure Boys ", which was released in October 1982.

Feral Barnacle Geese are found there ; a wild, ringed, Barnacle Goose was found in March 2011 — it was ringed at WWT Caerlaverock in Dumfrieshire, Scotland on 8 February 1999.

In the days before it was realised that birds migrate, it was thought that Barnacle Geese, Branta leucopsis, developed from this crustacean, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, hence the English names " goose barnacle ", " barnacle goose " and the scientific name Lepas anserifera ( Latin anser = " goose ").

Between the years 1981 and 1990, Special Forces was home to unconventional operations such as Project Barnacle, the Civil Cooperation Bureau and other operations conducted under the aegis of 7 Medical Battalion Group.

Their first full appearance in a " normal " episode was in " Night Light ", and since then, the rule of them only appearing in numbered " Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy " episodes has been abolished.

It is unclear how Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy can survive in Bikini Bottom, as they are some of the only true humanoid characters on the show ; an origin special, however, explains that Mermaid Man was given a special starfish covering his nose that allowed him to do so.

It was stated that it contained Mermaid Man, Barnacle Boy, The Quickster, Miss Appear, Elastic Waistband, and Captain Magma as the original line-up.

It would later be revisited in " The Bad Guy Club For Villains ," a flashback episode of a classic Adventures of Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy episode called " The Secret Meeting " though it was referred to in this instance by a slight variation as the International Justice LODGE of Super Acquaintances instead with Captain Magma appearing drastically different from the costume worn by Squidward in " Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy V ."

Barnacle Boy was said to be 68 years old in " Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V ".

Barnacle Boy when he was young.

Through " Mermaidman Begins ," it seems that Barnacle Boy was a normal human who used to be a sailor boy responsible for scraping barnacles off the sides of ships.

Elbert was involved in many plays held for the public in the Barnacle.

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy first appeared in the episode of the same name.

They built the first Children's Playhouse west of the Mississippi River in a barn on their property, which they named the Barnacle.

Working regularly with vocalists such as Helen Rogers, Becki Biggins, and Margo LeDuc, Hardcastle has recruited several saxophonists including Gary Barnacle ( on the first album ), Snake Davis, Phil Todd, Tony Woods, and Rock Hendricks.

Joyce modelled the character upon his wife, Nora Barnacle ; indeed, the day upon which the novel is set — June 16, 1904, now called Bloomsday — is that of their first date.

While most of the resurrected mutants attack the X-Men and Utopia, Selene is seen with Eli Bard resurrecting the massacred residents of Genosha, with Cerebro detecting the rise of mutant numbers in millions ( the first life-signs detected by Bastion's computers include Spoor, Katu, Unus, REM-RAM, Static, and Barnacle ).

" This defensive style of play brought him the first of his nicknames, " Barnacle Bailey ", but he was a good enough cricketer that he has retrospectively been calculated to have been the leading all-rounder in the world for most of his international career.

* " Hooky " is an episode from the first season of the animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants that aired along with Mermaid Man And Barnacle Boy II on April 8, 2000