Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian Continent, or to a European subcontinent, given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its Southeastern border has always been vaguely defined, and disputed.

The area is a summering place for a number of migratory birds including Brent geese, Eurasian Wigeons, and the pintails of California.

In a boundary running the length of the island and continuing southwards in the Luzon Volcanic Arc ( including Green Island and Orchid Island ), the Eurasian Plate is sliding under the Philippine Sea Plate.

Early tribes were nomadic or semi-nomadic due to the arid conditions of the region as the steppe culture in Central Asia was an extension of a larger Eurasian series of horse cultures which spanned the entire spectrum of language families including the Indo-Europeans and Turko-Mongol groups.

Smaller predators are occasionally preyed on, including martens, mink, foxes, canada lynx, weasels, Eurasian lynx, and coyote and wolf pups.

The estuary is important as a breeding, roosting and wintering site for many waterfowl and other birds, including woodpeckers, Nightingale, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, European Wigeon, Common Shelduck, Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Grey Plover, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Dunlin and Black-tailed Godwit.

* Eurasian colonists: later colonists from Eurasia, including plovers, swallows, larks, thrushes, cisticolas, sunbirds and some raptors

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The morphological features of the cave bear chewing apparatus, including loss of premolars, have long been suggested to indicate their diets displayed a higher degree of herbivory than the Eurasian brown bear.

The island subspecies T. p. hebridensis breeds in more open country, including heathland, and in the east of the Song Thrush's Eurasian range, the nominate subspecies is restricted to the edge of the dense conifer forests.

This sparrow breeds over most of temperate Eurasia and Southeast Asia, where it is known as the Tree Sparrow, and it has been introduced elsewhere including the United States, where it is known as the Eurasian Tree Sparrow or German Sparrow to differentiate it from the native unrelated American Tree Sparrow.

Nakhodka is also an important transport junction where goods from Japan are transferred from ships onto the Russian railway system, including the Trans-Siberian Railway portion of the Eurasian Land Bridge.

Later the term became synonymous with Islam and Hebrew and its scope expanded both eastward and westward to include all non-European areas of Eurasian civilization, including North Africa as far west as Morocco.

They also compete directly for lemmings and other prey with several predators, including Rough-legged Hawks, Golden Eagles, Peregrine Falcons, Gyrfalcons, jaegers, Glaucous Gulls, Short-eared Owls, Great Horned Owls, Eurasian Eagle Owls, Common Ravens, wolves, arctic foxes, and ermine.

He uses a Chinese Beile Dao sword and holds true to the style, armour and weapons, of a Sarmatian mounted archer — who were much like Parthians, Mongols and other mounted warriors from the area surrounding and including the Eurasian Steppe.

The horizontal barring seen on adult Eurasian Sparrowhawks is typical of woodland-dwelling predatory birds, while the adult male's bluish colour is also seen in other bird-eating raptors, including the Peregrine Falcon, the Merlin and other Accipiters.

Another study, which examined the effects of predators – including the Eurasian Sparrowhawk and introduced Grey Squirrel – on UK passerine populations, found that " whilst a small number of associations may suggest significant negative effects between predator and prey species, for the majority of the songbird species examined there is no evidence that increases in common avian predators or Grey Squirrels are associated with large-scale population declines.

Raptors who prey on Rough-legged Buzzards of most ages may include numerous eagles as well as large falcons, Eurasian Eagle Owls, Great Horned Owls and other large Buteo hawks, including those of their own species.

The European population of the Eurasian Crag Martin is estimated to be 360, 000 – 1, 110, 000 individuals, including 120, 000 – 370, 000 breeding pairs.

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.

Mammalian carnivores, including gray wolves, red foxes, badgers, raccoon dogs, Eurasian lynxes and domestic dogs are attacked immediately, with the parent cranes attempting to jab them in the flanks until the predator leaves the vicinity.

The Shikra is very similar in appearance to other sparrowhawk species including the Chinese Goshawk and Eurasian Sparrowhawk.

A variety of water birds visit the reservoir, including cormorants, the Spot-billed Pelican, Asian Openbill, Painted Stork, Black-headed Ibis and Eurasian Spoonbill.

During the 13th century, this Mongol Empire conquered most of the Eurasian land mass, including both China in the east and much of the old Islamic caliphate ( as well as Kievan Rus ) in the west.

The threatened American lotus is present in Eagle Island Marsh but several invasive species are present in the watershed, including flowering rush, Eurasian milfoil, curlyleaf pondweed, Phragmites and purple loosestrife.

During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to Zebu cattle ; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle.

, the Indian Plate is moving northeast at 5 cm / yr ( 2 in / yr ), while the Eurasian Plate is moving north at only 2 cm / yr ( 0. 8 in / yr ).

This is causing the Eurasian Plate to deform, and the Indian Plate to compress at a rate of 4 mm / yr ( 0. 15 in / yr ).

These were formed by the ongoing tectonic collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates.

Pakistan geologically overlaps both with the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates where its Sindh and Punjab provinces lie on the north-western corner of the Indian plate while Balochistan and most of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa lie within the Eurasian plate which mainly comprises the Iranian plateau, some parts of the Middle East and Central Asia.

), as the Arabian, African, and Indian continental plates began to collide with the Eurasian plate.

Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc long.

The 6, 000 km plus journey of the India landmass ( Indian Plate ) before its collision with Asia ( Eurasian Plate ) about 40 to 50 million years ago

European cattle are descended from the Eurasian subspecies, while zebu are descended from the Indian subspecies

These plates ( or microplates ) are believed to have formerly been part of the larger Eurasian Plate, but were formed when transform fault activity intensified as the Indian Plate began its substantive collision with the Eurasian continent.

If such an earthquake causes rapid deformation of the sea floor, there is potential for tsunamis, such as the earthquake caused by subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate under the Eurasian Plate on December 26, 2004 that devastated the areas around the Indian Ocean.

While the term Peranakan is most commonly used among the ethnic Chinese for those of Chinese descent also known as Straits Chinese (; named after the Straits Settlements ), there are also other, comparatively small Peranakan communities, such as Indian Hindu Peranakans ( Chitty ), Indian Muslim Peranakans ( Jawi Pekan ) ( Jawi being the Javanised Arabic script, Pekan a colloquial contraction of Peranakan ) and Eurasian Peranakans ( Kristang ) ( Kristang = Christians ).

Art historian Robert Hillenbrand ( 1999 ) likens the movement to the foundation of an " Islamic Rome ", because the meeting of Eastern influences from Iranian, Eurasian steppe, Chinese, and Indian sources created a new paradigm for Islamic art.

Some sources claim Merle's parents as Charlotte Selby, a Eurasian from Ceylon with partial Māori heritage, and Arthur Terrence O ' Brien Thompson, a British mechanical engineer from Darlington, who worked in Indian Railways.

No similar object is known from Bronze Age Eurasian steppe cultures, and the object has been compared to the vajra thunderbolt of Indian Indra.

The Eurasian Jay ( Garrulus glandarius ) is a species of bird occurring over a vast region from Western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia.

The Tian Shan are a part of the Himalayan orogenic belt, which was formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates in the Cenozoic era.

A Eurasian of Australian and Singapore ( Indian Singaporean ) parentage, O ' Rourke was brought up in Singapore before moving to Australia in her early 20s to study pharmacology.

Closeup of the boundaries with the Eurasian, Arabian and Indian plates.