So far, only a single bird species, which has not been named, has been confidently identified from both above and below the K-Pg boundary ( it is present in the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation and Danian Fort Union Formation ).

Swahili is well known for having words beginning with prenasalized stops, as in ndege ' bird ', and is many languages of the South Pacific, such as Fijian, these are even spelled with single letters: b, d.

Gimbutas did identify the diverse and complex Paleolithic and Neolithic female representations she recognized as depicting a single universal Great Goddess, but also as manifesting a range of female deities: snake goddess, bee goddess, bird goddess, mountain goddess, Mistress of the Animals, etc., which were not necessarily ubiquitous throughout Europe.

The bat wing is a membrane stretched across four extremely elongated fingers, while the airfoil of the bird wing is made of feathers, which are strongly attached to the forearm ( the ulna ) and the highly fused bones of the wrist and hand ( the carpometacarpus ), with only tiny remnants of two fingers remaining, each anchoring a single feather.

It housed a single human male sacrifice along with a wolf, jaguar, puma, serpent, bird, skeletons, and over 400 other artifacts.

On the other hand, the single bone fragment assigned to this taxon is not very diagnostic and may not be of a bird at all.

In his 1942 painting, The Omen of the Eagle, the archetypal images of, in Rothko ’ s words, " man, bird, beast and tree ... merge into a single tragic idea.

It has a loud, wailing or howling display call uooooh, given by a single bird or a pair in duet, by night or during the day, and often from cover.

On one of these walks, in December 1815, he noticed a single bird flying on the horizon ; the sight moved him enough to write " To a Waterfowl ".

It is not unusual for a single bird to feed the chicks in the nest at a rate of one feed every ninety ( 90 ) seconds during the height of the breeding season.

The vangas are an example of adaptive radiation, having evolved from a single founding population into a variety of forms adapted to various niches occupied by other bird families in other parts of the world.

In modern times, however, such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and the Feng and Huang are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which has male connotations.

They are generally sedentary, a single bird, a pair, or a family group occupying a stretch of habitat on a more or less permanent basis, however some individuals appear to travel considerable distances, and flocks will sometimes congregate in food-rich areas.

Only with the help of all three can the bird soar into the heights .” She accepts the various spiritual practices and prayers of all religions as but various systems for the single goal of purifying the mind.

He was fond of telling interviewers that he had done every single bird in the place.

As of the 2000s, the islet is an uninhabited sea bird reserve, save for a single man who works the light house, manages the small emergency yacht harbour ( depth ca.

The taxonomy of the towhees has been under debate in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the Spotted Towhee were considered a single species, the Rufous-sided Towhee.

There has been one record of this species as a vagrant to western Europe ; a single bird in Great Britain in 1966.

The taxonomy of the towhees has been debated in recent decades, and formerly this bird and the Eastern Towhee were considered a single species, the Rufous-sided Towhee.

alt = Photo of single bird attempting to fly away

Slender-billed Curlews have been reported in various Western Palearctic locations on a number of occasions since the Druridge bird, including claimed, but unverified, sightings of single birds from Italy and Greece ; none have been documented with conclusive photographs and at least one claimed bird, at RSPB Minsmere, Suffolk, England in 2004, is now widely believed to have been a Eurasian Curlew.

A sighting of a single bird was reported from Albania in 2006 by a team including ornithologists from the environmental organization EuroNatur.

In Great Britain a recent review left a single occurrence in 1859 as the only acceptable record of this bird.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

A single value of the thermal relaxation time Af at room temperature was measured by the progressive saturation method.

A single measurement of the spin - spin relaxation time Af was obtained at 10 Mc/sec by pulse methods.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

It was concluded that it would be appropriate to process the two groups of responses as a single sample of all small businesses engaged in, or wishing to sell to, defense programs.

A small single switchboard was installed in the Village over Woodcock's hardware store ( later E. H. Hemenway's ).

But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

A single automobile was parked half-way up the block on the left-hand side.

Lemon was on with his fourth single of the game, a liner to center.

Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.

Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.

On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection -- and every single one of them was up for sale.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

This was the case, for instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men series and in single stories such as " Heir Apparent ", whose protagonist was described as a " benevolent dictator ".