In the western Palaearctic, populations are generally stable or increasing, but there have been local declines, especially on farmland, which may be due to agricultural policies that encouraged farmers to remove hedgerows ( which provide nesting places ), and to drain damp grassland and increase the use of pesticides, both of which could have reduced the availability of invertebrate food.

* Snow, David W .; Perrins, Christopher M .; Doherty, Paul & Cramp, Stanley ( 1998 ): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM.

* Snow, David W .; Perrins, Christopher M .; Doherty, Paul & Cramp, Stanley ( 1998 ): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM.

* Snow, David W .; Perrins, Christopher M .; Doherty, Paul & Cramp, Stanley ( 1998 ): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM.

* Snow, D. W .; Perrins, Christopher M .; Doherty, P. & Cramp, S. ( 1998 ): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM.

* Snow, David W .; Perrins, Christopher M .; Doherty, Paul & Cramp, Stanley ( 1998 ): The complete birds of the western Palaearctic on CD-ROM.

& Zatwarnicki, T. ( 1990 ), A revision of the western Palaearctic species of Athyroglossa ( Diptera: Ephydridae ).

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

His western coastline is so distorted, however, that it is impossible to say where Adjacium was ; certainly, he would have known its name and location if he had had any first-hand knowledge of the island and if in fact it was there.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

Many western human rights groups state that civil rights and free expression are severely limited in Belarus, though there are some individuals and groups that refuse to be controlled and some journalists have disappeared.

Copper-tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact that there were no tin bronzes in western Asia before the third millennium BC.

Currently, the word " Bohemians " is sometimes used when speaking about persons from Bohemia of non-Czech or mixed ethnic origin, especially before the year 1918, when the Kingdom of Bohemia ceased to exist ; also when there is need to distinguish between inhabitants of the western part ( Bohemia proper ) of Czechia, and the eastern ( Moravia ) or the north-eastern part ( Silesia ).

In the late 20th and early 21 century in Thailand, for example, there has been a cultural shift away from western social and political values more toward Japanese and Chinese.

In western Europe there emerged what is considered the " ultimate " heavy cavalry, the knight.

In 1830 he moved to Liberty in Clay County in western Missouri, and set up practice there, where he also farmed.

Despite this, there are still obvious differences between eastern and western Berlin.

It is known to exist in northern Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, northern Iraq ( Kurdistan ), and Nicholas Birch of the The Christian Science Monitor claims there is circumstantial evidence for its existence in Syria, western Iran, and southern Turkey.

Some gray whales have also been seen off western Kamchatka, but to date all whales photographed there are also known from the Piltun area.

It seems that the makers of the Ziwa / Gokomere wares were not the ancestral speakers of the Shona languages of today ’ s Zimbabwe, who did not arrive in there until around the tenth century, from south of the Limpopo river, and whose ceramic culture belonged to the western stream.

But at length his son Vortimer engaged Hengist and Horsa and their men in battle, drove them back to Thanet and there enclosed them and beset them on the western flank.

The existence of richly furnished burials, usually with weapons, suggests that there was a chiefly elite in southern and western parts of the country.

In 1975, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal caused authorities there to announce plans for decolonisation of Portuguese Timor, the eastern half of the island of Timor whose western half was a part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.

However unlike China, there was no real systemic continuity from the western Roman Empire to its German successor which famously was " not holy, not Roman, and not an empire ", and numerous small states existed in variously autonomous confederation.

Although by 1000 Germanic conquest of central, western, and southern Europe west of and including Italy was complete, excluding only Muslim Iberia, there was no process equivalent to Han sinification, and " Germany " remained largely a conceptual term referring to an amorphous area of central Europe.

The Sanjak preserved the separation of Serbia and Montenegro, and the Austro-Hungarian garrisons there would open the way for a dash to Salonika that " would bring the western half of the Balkans under permanent Austrian influence.

Although there are earlier descriptions of an island in the Sunda Strait with a " pointed mountain ," the earliest mention of Krakatoa by name in the western world was on a 1611 map by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, who labelled the island " Pulo Carcata " ( pulo is the Sundanese word for " island ").

“ Over the last twenty years there has been a widespread decline in trade union membership throughout most of western Europe.

In November 1803, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops from Saint-Domingue ( more than two-thirds of its troops died there ) and gave up its ambitions in the western hemisphere.

By a final placitum issued there, Louis gave Bavaria to Louis the German and disinherited Pepin II, leaving the entire remainder of the empire to be divided roughly into an eastern part and a western.

Overall the western market may be considered mature with a flat to declining overall volumes while there is strong growth in the emerging economies.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

A western vacation is practically synonymous with a visit to at least one of the magnificent national parks in this area.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

In western Europe and North America, where the level of economic development is higher, grains and other seed products furnish less than one-third of the food consumed.

The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

A Modest Proposal is included in many literature programs as an example of early modern western satire.

This script is the parent script of all western alphabets.

Asia Minor ( from, Mikrá Asía, small Asia ) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

The second is between eastern Australia and western South America.

The third is between Japan and western North America.

The people of Graz, the capital of Styria, speak yet another dialect which is not very Styrian and more easily understood by people from other parts of Austria than other Styrian dialects, for example from western Styria.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Confirming evidence is found in excavations of the western regions of the Mississippi Valley between 1150 and 1350, which show long-lasting patterns of warmer, wetter winters and cooler, drier summers.

Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

Occasionally western broccoli is also referred to as sai lan fa ( in Cantonese ) in order not to confuse the two styles of broccoli.

The orange western carrot is known in some areas of China as " foreign Daikon " ( or more properly hung lo bac in Cantonese, hung meaning " red ").