{"id":14775,"date":"2012-06-29T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/geese\/red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:19:44","slug":"red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/geese\/red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) is a goose of the genus Branta. The Red-breasted Goose breeds in Arctic Europe, often close to nests of large birds of prey, such as Peregrine Falcons. This helps to protect this small goose from predators such as the Arctic Fox. It winters in south eastern Europe. It is a rare vagrant to Great Britain &amp; other western European areas, where it is sometimes found with Brent flocks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-22-14775\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2603\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis\/red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis.jpg\" title=\"Martinmere, Lancashire, UK\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Martinmere, Lancashire, UK\" alt=\"Red-Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis\/thumbs\/thumbs_red-breasted-goose-branta-ruficollis.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Red-Breasted Goose (Branta 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The Red-breasted Goose breeds in Arctic Europe, often close to nests of large birds of prey, such as Peregrine Falcons. This helps to protect this small goose from predators such as the Arctic Fox. It winters in south eastern Europe. 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