• Bird of the Iron Feather is an American television soap opera that aired on the National Educational Television network from January 19 to March 6, 1970...
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  • Richard Durham (category Historians of the civil rights movement)
    Bird of the Iron Feather was the first all-Black television soap opera, and ran for 21 episodes, three times a week starting in January 1970. The show's...
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  • (1968–2013) Bright Promise (1969–1972) Where the Heart Is (1969–1973) The Best of Everything (1970) Bird of the Iron Feather (1970) A World Apart (1970–1971) Somerset...
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    Oscar Brown (category University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni)
    was the show's presenter and it featured a new musical guest each week. Brown sang the theme for the 1970 drama series Bird of the Iron Feather, the first...
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    seen in farmed ostriches. Feather pecking occurs when one bird repeatedly pecks at the feathers of another. The levels of severity may be recognized...
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    Muhal Richard Abrams (category DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame members)
    Chico, 1977). He served as composer and wrote the theme for the 1970 drama series Bird of the Iron Feather, the first all-Black television soap opera started...
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    The Feather of Finist the Falcon or Finist the Falcon (Russian: Пёрышко Финиста ясна сокола, romanized: Peryshko Finista yasna sokola) is a Russian fairy...
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  • executioners and the offering in ritual sacrifices. A bird-hamr (pl. hamir) or feather cloak that enable the wearers to take the form of, or become, birds are widespread...
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    'quetzal tail feather'; from that, Nahuatl quetzaltotōtl means 'quetzal-feather bird' and thus 'quetzal'. Two subspecies are recognized, P. m. mocinno and...
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    Dodo (redirect from Dodo bird)
    The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean...
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    Hummingbird (redirect from Humming-bird)
    position, feather regions of a muted-looking bird can instantly become fiery red or vivid green. In courtship displays for one example, males of the colorful...
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    Young birds reach a maximum weight heavier than their parents; they can cope with not being fed for long periods of time, and delay their feather growth...
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    Domestic turkey (category Domesticated birds)
    followed by a rapid vibration of their tail feathers. Throughout, the birds strut slowly about, with the neck arched backward, their breasts thrust forward...
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  • Alicanto (Chilean) – bird with luminescent feathers which feeds on gold or silver Anqa (Arabian) – large mysterious or fabulous female bird Anzû (Mesopotamian) –...
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    Swan maiden (redirect from The Swan Maiden)
    either as a bird or as a woman; those in which one of the elements of the narrative is the theft of the feather-robe belonging to a bird-maiden, though...
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    Huginn and Muninn (category Birds in Norse mythology)
    feathers of the birds are also composed of animal heads. Together, the animal heads on the feathers form a mask on the back of the bird. The birds have powerful...
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    bird, tried to catch it by the tail. Unfortunately, Ivan only managed to grasp one feather. The Firebird did not return, but the king longed for the bird...
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    off. The feather is so valuable that the king decides he must have the bird. He sends his gardener's three sons, one after another, to capture the priceless...
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    which gives the bird a speckled appearance. The reduction in the spotting in the breeding season is achieved through the white feather tips largely wearing...
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    Domestic goose (category Bird hybrids)
    their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals. Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose (Anser...
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    Ostrich meat (category Birds as food)
    Ostrich meat is a type of red meat obtained from the ostrich, a large flightless bird native to Africa. Known for its health benefits and sustainability...
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  • Angry Birds is a Finnish media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment, and owned by Sega. The game series focuses on the titular flock of colorful angry...
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    it to be iron-based, later spectroscopic analysis demonstrated high copper (and low iron) content in pigment from the green feathers of the Knysna turaco...
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    Stymphalia. The Stymphalian birds are man-eating birds with beaks of bronze, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous...
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    for the largest flying birds. The feathers lack the tiny hooks that lock together the smooth external feathers of flying birds, and so are soft and fluffy...
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  • 2024 in archosaur paleontology (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    interpret exceptional preservation of fossils (including early birds and feathered non-avian dinosaurs) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (China)...
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    Bearded vulture (category Birds of prey of Africa)
    from the former by its feathered neck. Although dissimilar, the Egyptian and bearded vulture each have a lozenge-shaped tail—unusual among birds of prey...
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    for the head, with a thin quill made from the feather of a large bird for the mouthpiece. Seagull, turkey and eagle feathers are among the feathers commonly...
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    not know much about the meaning of birds. I tell you he will not long be absent from his dear native land, not if chains of iron hold him fast. He will...
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  • uncooked, and to fill a mattress with feathers from the sea. To fill the mattress, the youth tells her to summon all birds by shouting that their μαργιροντάκις...
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