Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly detailed studies of indigenous North American cultures.

Some salamanders adopt defensive poses when faced by a potential predator such as the North American northern short-tailed shrew ( Blarina brevicauda ).

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

* North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks

Some of the larger basins are the Blake, Guiana, North American, Cape Verde, and Canaries basins in the North Atlantic.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

The American Sign Language used in different regions across North America reflects the oral language around them.

See American Sign Language family for an incomplete list of ASL varieties used outside North America.

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.

* List of Owl Species Breeding In North American and Owl Photos

Summer distribution and abundance of Canada Goose using data from the North American Breeding Bird Surveys 1994-2003

These citizen science projects include nation-wide projects such as the Christmas Bird Count, Backyard Bird Count, the North American Breeding Bird Survey, the Canadian EPOQ or regional projects such as the Asian Waterfowl Census and Spring Alive in Europe.

Breeding cliffs at South Stack, North Wales

Breeding birds return to Europe between April and May, and nest building starts between late March in North Africa and mid-June in Lapland.

Breeding takes place generally north of 50 ° northern latitude in northern Europe and Asia ( where it is known as the Great Grey Shrike ), and in North America ( where it is known as the Northern Shrike ) north of 55 ° northern latitude in Canada and Alaska.

Breeding stock has been exported to the rest of the world, especially Australia and North America, since the early 20th Century.

Breeding begins in May, but most birds nest only in June, later than usual for North American waterfowl.

Breeding plumage, North Carolina

: Breeding range from Mackenzie, British Columbia region E to Hudson Bay ; southern limit unclear but at least reaches to Montana and North Dakota.

Additionally, citizen science projects such as the North American Breeding Bird Survey and Christmas Bird Count have determined that Rusty Blackbirds have dropped 85 %– 98 % in the past 40 years.

Breeding populations of this sparrow-sized member of the finch family are rare in North Carolina.

The North American Breeding Bird Survey was launched in 1966 after the concept of a continental monitoring program for all breeding birds had been developed by Chandler Robbins and his associates from the Migratory Bird Population Station.

* North American Breeding Bird Survey

Breeding then spread throughout North America.

TBC methods are similar to those employed by the North American Breeding Bird Survey, although the TBC uses more closely spaced sites ( one site per 1-km² square ) over a smaller total area ( approximately 1000 km² ).

The park was designated as a " Globally Important Bird Area " by the American Bird Conservancy in 1998 for providing an " important habitat for globally significant numbers of Brown Pelicans, Redheads ( 5 % of the world's population ), Least Terns ( 8 % of the North American population ), Piping Plovers ( 10 % of the world's population ), Reddish Egrets ( 7 % of the biogeographic population ) and Peregrine Falcons ( 7 % of the North American population ).

With the addition of the Yellow Dragon of the Center to Azure Dragon of the East, these Vermillion, White, and Black Dragons coordinate with the Four Symbols, including the Vermilion Bird of the South, White Tiger of the West, and Black Tortoise of the North.

:: The Restigouche Estuary was designated ( June, 2000 ) an Important Bird Area of International Significance ( the first in New Brunswick ) because it is the largest staging area in eastern North America for Black scoter.

The intertidal mudflats in the North East Arm area of the park are an important foraging area for migratory waders, and form part of the Rubicon Estuary Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International bercause of their importance for Pied Oystercatchers.

The park overlaps the North Dandalup Important Bird Area.

The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge spans the Lady Bird Lake and is home to North America's largest urban colony of Mexican Free-tailed Bats, with a summer population of 1. 5 million bats.

Since 1985 the Bird Awards are presented at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Atlas of Wintering North American Birds: An Analysis of Christmas Bird Count Data.

* NARBA North American Rare Bird Alert

In North America, the goshawk is federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 by an amendment incorporating native birds of prey into the Act in 1972.

In North America the U. S. Bird Banding Laboratory collaborates with Canadian programs and since 1996, partners with the North American Banding Council ( NABC ).

A. Allen ( 1877 ); Birds of the Colorado Valley ( 1878 ); A Bibliography of Ornithology ( 1878 – 1880, incomplete ); New England Bird Life ( 1881 ); A Dictionary and Check List of North American Birds ( 1882 ); Biogen, A Speculation on the Origin and Motive of Life ( 1884 ); The Daemon of Darwin ( 1884 ); Can Matter Think?

North American Bird Guide.

The species was first described in 1913 by Frederick W. True from an adult female that had stranded on the outer bank of Bird Island Shoal, Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, in July 1912.

* North American Bird Sounds — Parulidae through Icteridae with recordings and a link to a photograph.