Its breeding season is tied to the peak of food supply, beginning in late July, which is relatively late in the year for a finch.

Its distribution throughout its breeding range seems to be very local, and for this no obvious reason can be assigned.

Its Fen provides one of the few breeding sites in Great Britain for the Swallowtail.

Its relationship to other falcons is not clear ; the issue is complicated by widespread hybridization confounding mtDNA sequence analyses ; for example a genetic lineage of the Saker Falcon ( F. cherrug ) is known which originated from a male Saker producing fertile young with a female Peregrine ancestor, and the descendants further breeding with Sakers.

Its relationship to the four other loons is complex ; although all belong to the same genus, it differs more than any of the others in terms of morphology, behaviour, ecology and breeding biology, and may be the basal lineage of the genus.

Its main occurrence and only breeding habitat is in barrancos, ravines and rocky slopes with fairly sparse ( 30-50 % open ground ), shrubby vegetation ( Illera et al., 2006 ).

Its most obvious characteristic during the breeding season is its brightly coloured bill.

Its specific name, penicillatus is Latin for a painter's brush ( pencil of hairs ), in reference to white plumes on its neck and back during the early breeding season.

Its diet may vary based on several factors, including the stage of the breeding cycle, short-term variations in available food, nutrient availability, and inter-and intraspecific competition.

Its breeding range extends from just west of the Ural Mountains eastwards to eastern Siberia, Mongolia and northeastern China.

Its breeding range extends from the western USA south through Mexico, as well as from southeastern Brazil and southeastern Bolivia south to central Argentina, and along the coast of central Chile.

Its winter range extends from southern California and Louisiana south to include the rest of its breeding range.

Its large population and huge breeding range mean that this species is classed as being of Least Concern, although numbers in North America have declined sharply in recent decades.

Its breeding habitat is freshwater lakes and rivers across northern North America, Greenland, Europe, and Asia.

Its breeding distribution is in wetlands in warm temperate to tropical parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Its closest relative is the Lesser Yellowlegs, a much smaller bird with a very different appearance apart from the fine, clear, and dense pattern of the neck, which both species show in breeding plumage.

Its breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes in southern Europe and Central Asia, wintering in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa.

Its main industry is stock breeding.

Its breeding range stretches from Iceland through Europe and areas of central Asia.

Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy ( southern Apulia ).

Its breeding habitat is marshes and lakes in sub-Saharan Africa.

Its breeding range extends from central and western Alaska across northern Canada to Nova Scotia, and south throughout North America, into central Mexico and the Caribbean.

Its breeding range spans eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern to northeastern-central Mexico.

Its breeding territory range from 800 to at least 8000 square meters in size, and are used for nesting, gathering nest materials, and foraging.

Its sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines and low-growing shrubs are primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife.

Its scientific name is derived from Latin, struthio meaning " Ostrich " and camelus meaning " camel ", alluding to its dry habitat.

Its habitat ranges from the shoreline down to the continental shelf.

Its habitat ranges from rainforest to desert terrains.

Its native habitat includes California, extending to Oregon, southern Washington, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and in Mexico in Sonora and northwest Baja California.

Its habitat ranges from grassy plains over snow gum forests to alpine meadows.

Its divine aspect combined with its habitat in the earth between the roots of plants made it an animal with chthonic properties connected to the afterlife and immortality.

Its natural habitat ranges from southeast Alaska to central Mexico, including the Gulf of California.

Its name comes from the Arabic word فنك ( fanak ), which means fox, and the species name zerda comes from the Greek word xeros which means dry, referring to the fox's habitat.

Its native habitat is in the rugged wooded hills and mountain slopes of the Himalaya in Nepal from Central Asia in northern Kashmir to China.

Its thin soils are dominated by hickory species and it is also home to several smaller species such as Talinum teretifolium ( Fame flower ), Diamorpha smallii ( Small ’ s sedum ), and Hypericum gentianoides ( Pineweed ) that are found only in this type of habitat.

Its native habitat is the lower slopes of the Chilean and Argentinian south-central Andes, typically above.

Its habitat is very fast-flowing, clear mountain streams with wooded banks.

Its scientific name means " small rock-dweller ", in reference to its habitat.

Its main habitat is high mountains ; it is found between 2, 000 and 2, 500 metres ( 6, 560 – 8, 200 ft ) in North Africa, and mainly between 2, 400 and 3, 000 metres ( 7, 950 – 9, 840 ft ) in the Himalayas.

Its habitat is natural cliffs, usually on coasts.

Its wintering habitat is largely restricted to calm waters just beyond the waves around ocean coasts, although some birds may winter on large lakes.

Its range covers Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia ; its habitat includes mountains and high plateau between elevations of 1500 to 3400 metres.

Its folk names include " barrel-maker ", " bog-bull ", " bog hen ", " bog-trotter " and " mire drum ", mainly with reference to its voice or habitat.

Its preferred habitat is open country including marshland, paddy fields and grassland.

Its soft, lax body plumage is extremely cryptic in its natural habitat.

Its natural habitat, combined with that of the Black Swan, covers almost the whole State and symbolically reflect the jurisdiction of the coat of arms.

Its numbers seem to be slowly declining in the west of its range since the late 19th century, coincident with the expansion of human settlement and habitat conversion in the birds ' wintering areas ; the eastern Whistling Swan populations on the other hand seem to be increasing somewhat, and altogether its numbers seem to have slightly risen in the late 20th century ( the population was estimated at about 146, 000 in 1972 ).