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  • Toucan is the common name for any of the large-billed, long-tailed ... Reflecting the principle of bi-level functionality, toucans provide ...
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  • The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is an extensive information ... The current nine RED List Categories include seven by which the extinction ...
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  • Gull is the common name for any of the aquatic birds comprising the ... In common usage, members of various gull species are often referred ...
    12 KB (1,696 words) - 21:18, 21 June 2024
  • Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species ... intelligent, the rook adds to the wonder of nature, particularly with their ...
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  • Ibis is the common name for any of the long-legged wading birds of ... provide important ecological values as part of food chains, consuming various ...
    12 KB (1,690 words) - 14:53, 28 November 2024
  • Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky ... Galliformes have historically been important for food and as game ...
    13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
  • Coot is the common name for any of the medium-sized, duck-like aquatic ... food chains, helping to maintain populations of prey species and aquatic vegetation ...
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  • Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...
    13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
  • A macaw is any parrot (family Psittacidae) belonging to one of six ... can experience great joy from the sight of a hyacinth macaw in a tree ...
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  • Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for ... six extant species is recognized, with four of the species native to the Americas ...
    17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
  • The name of the park, Manas National Park, originates from the Manas ... survive, villagers living on the periphery of the park have presented the ...
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  • migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in ...
    18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
  • well as other desert and mountainous regions of North Africa. A nocturnal omnivore, at night the fennec hunts rodents, insects, ...
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  • The nation of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape ... well as into Niger. These two parks are part of the largest group of protected ...
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  • Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous (egg-laying ... taxonomic orders in the class Aves. The list of birds gives a more detailed ...
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  • and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... could be tracked down to the first settlers of America. Putnam attended private ...
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  • Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... The species was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United ...
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  • in American English, they are but one of more than 100 species commonly ... They are native to Australia where flocks of 10 to 100 birds, and even up ...
    20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
  • long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and ... Sinepuxent, Maryland, near the northern end of the bay, and the other from ...
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  • spoken language in the West African nation of Senegal), is the capital of ... north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially ...
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