Birds with a Gondwanan history include the flightless ratites ( the Emu and Southern Cassowary ), megapodes ( the Malleefowl and Australian Brush-turkey ), and a huge group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes.

The most common of these, the Southern Cassowary, is the third tallest and second heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.

* Casuarius casuarius, Southern Cassowary or Double-wattled Cassowary, found in southern New Guinea, northeastern Australia, and the Aru Islands, mainly in lowlands.

Even the more accessible Southern Cassowary of the far north Queensland rain forests is not well understood.

Detail of a Southern Cassowary head.

This is related to their discovery that at least the Dwarf Cassowary and Southern Cassowary produce very-low frequency sounds, which may aid in communication in dense rainforest.

The Southern Cassowary is endangered in Queensland, Australia.

( 2006 ) " Causes of mortality to the endangered Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuariusjohnsonii in Queensland, Australia.

The Southern Cassowary is occasionally spotted in the southern section of the park.

The endangered Southern Cassowary and Mahogany Glider are found in the park.

Most of it lies within the Paluma Important Bird Area ( IBA ), so identified by BirdLife International because it is a southern outlier for many species and contains a significant population of the vulnerable Southern Cassowary.

* Casuarius casuarius Southern Cassowary

Next to the Main Lake and opposite the cafe are exhibits home to the Southern Cassowary and the Goodfellow's Tree kangaroo.

* Southern Cassowary

Threatened species include the Southern Cassowary, Southern Crowned Pigeon, Pesquet's Parrot, Salvadori's Teal and Macgregor's Giant Honeyeater.

* Southern Cassowary

Significant species include Southern Cassowary, Brolga, Royal Spoonbill, Eclectus Parrot and Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

The endangered Southern Cassowary and rare Spotted-tailed Quoll are some of the many threatened species, while the Musky Rat-kangaroo is one of 50 animal species that are unique to this area.

Southern Cassowary

The Daintree Region is home to a number of rare and endangered species, including the Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ) and Bennett's Tree-kangaroo ( Dendrolagus bennettianus ).

The Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ) also known as Double-wattled Cassowary, Australian Cassowary or Two-wattled Cassowary, is a large flightless black bird.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

My intention, therefore, is not to say that Faulkner's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South, but rather that he has looked at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

Person To Person ventilates the home lives of Johnny Mercer and Joan Collins -- both in Southern California ( Channel 5 at 10:30 ) KQED Summer Music Festival features a live concert by the Capello De Musica ( Channel 9 at 8:30 ).

Some authorities show it extending south to Antarctica, while others show it bounded at the 60 ° parallel by the Southern Ocean.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.

In 2012 he took over for Lisa Love, formerly senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California.

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, the largest ocean current.

Further south still is the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front ( SACCF ), which is determined as the southernmost extent of Circumpolar Deep Water ( temperature of about 2 ° C at 400m ).

* 1993 – 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners ( for tuberculosis ) against their religious beliefs.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

** UK — voltage remains at 25 kV AC — voltage change 750 V DC third rail ( The Southern Region ).

From 1959 to 1970, Fuller taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale ( SIU ).

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Although she had no experience in cinema, she took summer courses at the University of Southern California and received personal instruction from Hollywood specialists, such as Rudolph Sternad.

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.