The rows of animals and birds, in particular, suggest awareness of Oriental animal friezes, transmitted perhaps via Syrian silver bowls and textiles, but the specific forms of these rows on local vases and metal products are nonetheless Greek.

As the Australian and Otago ( eastern South Island ) Little Penguins seem to be a distinct species to which the specific name minor would apply, the White-flippered birds indeed belong to a distinct species, although not exactly as originally assumed.

The generic epithet translates as ' wandering about ', the specific indicates that it is migratory ; the Passenger Pigeon's movements were not only seasonal, as with other birds, they would mass in whatever location was most productive and suitable for breeding.

In species where intersexual selection is active, as in many polygamous birds, sexual selection acts by accelerating the preference that specific " fashion " ornaments attract, causing the preferred trait and female preference for it to increase together, explosively.

Many plants that are pollinated by insects, bats, or birds have highly specialized flowers modified to promote pollination by a specific pollinator that is also correspondingly adapted.

While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today seek answers to very specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses or predictions based on theories.

Most are found only on specific types of animals, and, in some cases, only to a particular part of the body ; some animals are known to host up to fifteen different species, although one to three is typical for mammals, and two to six for birds.

These world trees were associated with specific birds.

The specific name taken from the fact that juvenile birds were taken while journeying to their breeding location rather than from the nest, as falcon nests were difficult to get at.

By the eighteenth century, decorative hamons were often being combined with decorative folding techniques to produce entire landscapes, complete with specific islands, crashing waves, hills, mountains, rivers, and sometimes low spots were cut in the clay to produce niye far away from the hamon, creating effects such as birds in the sky.

If another stuffed owl is introduced ( or the same one removed and re-introduced ), the birds react to it again as though it were a predator, demonstrating that it is only a very specific stimulus that is habituated to ( namely, one particular unmoving owl in one place ).

Many of these birds and insects are important and specific pollinators for the fynbos, such as the Mountain Pride butterfly ( Aeropetes tulbaghia ) which only visits red flowers such as Disa uniflora and pollinates 15 different species.

As with other passerine birds, parasites are common, and include endoparasites, such as the nematode Splendidofilaria ( Avifilaria ) mavis whose specific name mavis derives from this thrush.

In winter, birds will often assemble in small groups and roost together, particularly to keep warm during the night ; this is apparently not initiated with a specific assembly display however.

They are amongst the most vocal of all birds, calling continuously in most situations, so much so that they are only ever silent for specific reasons such as avoiding predators or when intruding on a rival's territory.

Misidentified sightings of seals, otters, deer, diving water birds, large fish such as giant sturgeons or wels catfish, logs, mirages, seiches, light distortion, crossing boat wakes, or unusual wave patterns have all been proposed to explain specific reports.

It is in this portion of the Aranyaka that one finds specific statements about how one who follows the vedic injunctions and performs the sacrifices goes to become the God of Fire, or the Sun or Air and how one who transgresses the Vedic prescriptions is born into lower levels of being, namely, as birds and reptiles.

David Weld, the executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation, generically opined that " I personally just don't think that has any merit " yet refused to be specific or comment on the number of birds that come into contact with the island and fly back and forth between the mainland, possibly carrying infected ticks.

No specific details are known about the Dickcissel's lipochrome metabolism ; it may be that it happens to be more fine-tuned than in other birds, so that most mutations therein will be lethal and Audubon's bird was simply one of the very few individuals that survived.

Some species of birds such as the Zebra Finch and the Columbidae use the ultraviolet wavelength ( 300 – 400 nm ) specific to tetrachromatic color vision as a tool during mate selection and foraging.

With regard to " face specific " effects in neuroimaging, there are now multiple replications with Greebles, with birds and cars, and two unpublished studies with chess experts.

Some keepers can become highly specialized such as those who concentrate on a specific group of animals like birds, great apes, elephants or reptiles.

At least one species, the arboreal Gloydius shedaoensis of China, is known to select a specific ambush site and return to it every year in time for the spring migration of birds.

And, while the specific birds and animals did not change much throughout their use, the design of the squares underwent an almost continual evolution.

The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalized forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals, despite the fact that birds still outnumbered mammals two to one.

The monster still receives considerable attention, as indicated by the name ( Vermont Lake Monsters ) and mascot ( Champ ) of the state's minor league baseball team and a Vermont Historical Society publication, which also offers several mundane explanations for the so-called monster: " floating logs, schools of large sturgeons diving in a row, or flocks of black birds flying

The myth also claims that Confucius was fond of birds, which would explain the name " mahjong " ( maque 麻雀 = sparrow ).

* Phoebe ( bird ), the common name for birds of genus Sayornis in the tyrant flycatcher family

Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally considered in the order Galliformes.

The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for " butcher ", and some shrikes were also known as " butcher birds " because of their feeding habits.

Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains.

Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds, which also includes swans and geese.

The names " passerines " and " Passeriformes " are derived from Passer domesticus, the scientific name of the eponymous species ( the House Sparrow ) and ultimately from the Latin term passer for Passer sparrows and similar small birds.

A number of other birds, mostly related to the shelducks, have " goose " as part of their name.

Cassowaries ( from the Malay name kasuari ) are part of the ratite group, which also includes the Emu, rheas, ostriches, and kiwis, and the extinct moas and elephant birds.

The Latin suffix -( i ) formes meaning " having the form of " is used for the scientific name of orders of birds and fishes, but not for those of mammals and invertebrates.

Their name stems from the parrots ' strong, monogamous pair bonding and the long periods which paired birds spend sitting together.

They are distinct from the American sparrows, which although similar in appearance are placed in the family Emberizidae, and from a few other birds sharing their name, such as the Java Sparrow.

These birds have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces ( hence the German name Mauersegler, literally meaning " wall-glider ").

On Saturday morning, December 9, 1531, he reported the following: As he was walking to church, he heard the sound of birds singing on Tepeyac hill and someone calling his name.

Most are arboreal birds, but the large ground-hornbills ( Bucorvus ), as their name implies, are terrestrial birds of open savanna.

Similarly, certain types of amphibians and birds are sometimes called " false locusts " in imitation of the Greek pseud ( o ) acris, a scientific name sometimes given to a species because of its perceived cricket-like chirping.

He mentions three by name: Morpheus ( who excels in presenting human images ), Icelos or Phobetor ( who presents images of beasts, birds and serpents ), and Phantasos ( who presents images of earth, rock, water and wood ).

The name comes from the Greek word άορνος, meaning " without birds ", because according to tradition, all birds flying over the lake were destined to fall dead.