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The Smew ( Mergellus albellus ) is a species of duck It is somewhat intermediate between the typical mergansers ( Mergus ) and the goldeneyes ( Bucephala ), the only member of the genus Mergellus.
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Smew and Mergellus
The genus name Gavia was the Latin term for the Smew ( Mergellus albellus ).
** Mergellus, Smew
* Mergellus albellus Smew
** Smew Mergellus albellus
However, the authors included the Smew therein, and consequently, the bone is more properly assigned to Mergellus — especially as it was more similar to a Smew's than to the Bucephala remains also found at the site.
The other " aberrant " merganser, the Smew ( Mergellus albellus ), is phylogenetically closer to goldeneyes ( Bucephala ).
Smew and is
The drake Smew, with its ' cracked ice ' and ' panda ' appearance, is unmistakable, and looks very black-and-white in flight.
The Smew is long.
The Smew is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.
Hooded Mergansers are the second smallest species of merganser, with only the Smew of Europe and Asia being smaller, and is also the only Merganser whose native habitat is restricted to North America.
Both Shrike and Smew are named after birds, and Pennyroyal is named after a flower.
Smew and mergansers
The fish-eating members of this group, such as the mergansers and Smew, have serrated edges to their bills to help them grip their prey.
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Species Seen: Black Woodpecker, Short-toed Treecreeper, Geese ( Barnacle, White-fronted and Bean ), Shore Larks, Snow Buntings, Smew, Fieldfare, Common Buzzards, Long-eared Owl.
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The Smew has interbred with the Common Goldeneye ( B. clangula ).
The females and immature males are grey birds with chestnut foreheads and crowns, and can be confused at a distance with the Ruddy Duck ; they are often known as " redhead " Smew.
The Smew lives on fish-rich lakes and slow rivers.
The Smew breeds in May and lays 6 – 9 cream-colored eggs.
Species seen: Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Goldeneye, Goosander, Smew, Bittern, Song Thrush, Black Redstart, Water Pipit, Feral Pigeon, Canada Geese, Ruddy Duck, Mandarin Duck, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Gadwall, Coot and Red Kite.
Mergellus and albellus
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Mergellus and Mergus
* Genus Mergellus ( sometimes included in Mergus )
In other traits, however, the genera Mergus, Lophodytes, Mergellus, and Bucephala are very similar ; uniquely among all Anseriformes, they do not have notches at the hind margin of their sternum, but holes surrounded by bone.
albellus and is
An old English name " Abele ", now rarely used, is derived from the Latin albellus, white, by way of Old French aubel and Low German name abeel.
albellus and Mergus
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is and species
For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.
The misplaced modifier is another species more honored in the observance of obscurity than in the breach.
One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.
It seems to me that the first human being to reach one of these planets may well learn what it is to be a truly great and noble species ''.
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.
It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.
One of my favorites is A. armata, a species very common in England, where it is sometimes referred to as the lawn bee.
Almost equal in size to a honeybee, A. armata is much more beautiful in color, at least in the female of the species: a rich, velvety, rusty red.
Its life history is much simpler than that of the truly colonial bumblebees and can serve as an example of the life cycle of many other species.
It is, however, highly suggestive and agrees well with our own findings in which we also failed to demonstrate normally occurring bronchial artery-pulmonary artery shunts in certain species, especially the dog.
Finally, it is suggested that in many respects the horse lung may be anatomically more comparable to that of the human than any other presently known species.
On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.
There is a complete synonymy at the beginning of each species description.
There is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell -- and gave Maxwell's name to a new species -- from the Tigris marshes to his London flat.
However, in contexts where " amoeboid " is defined more loosely, there are many amoeboid species that are in the Excavata clade.
The total number of known amphibian species is approximately 7, 000, of which nearly 90 % are frogs.
The numbers of species cited above follow Frost and the total number of known amphibian species is approximately 7, 000, of which nearly 90 % are frogs.
All modern amphibians are included in the subclass Lissamphibia, superorder Salientia, which is usually considered a clade, a group of species that have evolved from a common ancestor.
The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.
Urodela is a name sometimes used for all the extant species of salamander.
The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.
The colour change displayed by many species is initiated by hormones secreted by the pituitary gland.
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