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This bird is named for the famous Seminole leader Osceola, and was first described in 1890.
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but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.
Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.
Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.
and the eagle, who leads the bird community when he is not too busy in Washington posing for fifty-cent pieces.
Alabama is unofficially nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird.
In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.
Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".
It is a significant bird egg predator, excepting those of the largest tundra bird species.
Every tree that is scorched and each bird nest that is devoured is a sign of the abiotic stress.
The Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ) is a medium to large bird of prey, whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia.
The Orioles wear their black alternate jerseys for Friday night games with the alternate " O's " cap, whether at home or on the road ; the cartoon bird batting helmet is still used with this uniform ( see description on home and road design below ).
head ) is a bird of prey found in North America.
It is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its Seal.
The Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradiseus ), also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa.
The Blue Crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family.
The Blue Crane is a bird very special to the amaXhosa, who call it indwe.
During the breeding season, the male call of this marsh-dwelling bird is a " low pitched boom "; hence, it is occasionally called the " bunyip bird ".
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So far, only a single bird species, which has not been named, has been confidently identified from both above and below the K-Pg boundary ( it is present in the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation and Danian Fort Union Formation ).
In New Guinea, Mayr collected several thousand bird skins ( he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime ) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species.
The Great Auk is mentioned in a number of novels and the scientific journal of the American Ornithologists ' Union is named The Auk in honour of this bird.
When European explorers discovered what are today known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the Great Auk and named them after this bird, although they are not related.
* The scientific journal of the American Ornithologists ' Union is named The Auk in honour of this bird.
* A cigarette company, the British Great Auk Cigarettes, was named after this bird.
A bird named Margalo is adopted by the Little family, and Stuart protects her from their malevolent cat.
The paper is named after the legendary martlet bird, whose inability to land is often seen to symbolize the constant quest for knowledge, learning, and adventure.
The oldest student newspaper on campus, The Martlet, is named after the bird.
A bird in the parrot family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning " Alexander's parrot ", after Alexander the Great whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece.
There are also standard named bases which are used in a wide variety of models, for instance the bird base is an intermediate stage in the construction of the flapping bird.
After agreeing to name Denver native and former NBA player Vince Boryla as general manager, Trindle moved his team to Denver as the Denver Larks, named after the Colorado state bird.
Nimrod aside, many naval fighters were named for birds-such as the Fairey Flycatcher, Fairey Fulmar, Blackburn Skua and Grumman Martlet ( the martlet being a heraldic bird ).
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements.
It appears on the coat of arms, various coins, features prominently in Indigenous Australian mythology, and hundreds of places are named after the bird.
The East Coast Akalat or Gunning's Robin ( Sheppardia gunningi ) is a small passerine bird which can be found in the east of Africa from Kenya to Mozambique, and is named after J. W. B. Gunning.
The Chickadees are named after the chickadee, a species of small bird ; the phrase " littlest chickadee " also suggests " my little chickadee ", a term of endearment classically used by W. C. Fields.
The American Harpy Eagle is a real bird named after the mythological animal.
The bird is named after the Canary Islands, not the other way around.
Kite quadrilaterals are named for the wind-blown, flying kites, which often have this shape and which are in turn named for a bird.
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As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.
By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.
She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright, like a bird alert for flight.
Similarly, the ancient English word for bird was " brid ".
He notes for the first time that the center of gravity of a flying bird does not coincide with its center of pressure, and he describes the construction of an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to a bird's.
But concerns over the proximity to a nesting site for an endangered bird, the California Least Tern, have led to delays in moving the project forward.
The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life.
* Bird ringing, or bird banding, placing a numbered bands of metal on birds ' legs for identification
* Beak, an alternative name for a bird beak
In addition to the production of nutmeg and mace, Banda maintained significant entrepot trade ; goods that moved through Banda included cloves from Ternate and Tidore in the north, bird of paradise feathers from the Aru Islands and western New Guinea, massoi bark for traditional medicines, and slaves.
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