The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States...
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Birds of America may refer to: Birds of America (book), a book by John James Audubon first published in sections between 1827 and 1838 Birds of America...
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Birds of America (originally titled The Laws of Motion) is a 2008 American comedy-drama independent movie directed by Craig Lucas, written by Elyse Friedman...
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lists of birds in the light blue box below are divided by biological family. The lists are based on The AOS Check-list of North American Birds of the American...
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Birds of America (1998) is a collection of short stories by American writer Lorrie Moore. The stories in this collection originally appeared in The New...
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elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including...
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Ornithology (redirect from Study of Birds)
and include the use of bird liming for perching birds, mist nets for woodland birds, cannon netting for open-area flocking birds, the bal-chatri trap...
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John James Audubon (category American bird artists)
depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book titled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest...
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that hangs from the top of the beak. They are among the largest birds in their ranges. As with many large ground-feeding birds (order Galliformes), the...
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Birds of North America is a comprehensive encyclopedia of bird species in the United States and Canada, with substantial articles about each species. It...
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is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere, with numerous subspecies throughout North America and Eurasia. A bird of prey once known colloquially...
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serious birding in North America." Originally concentrated on finding, listing, and identifying rare birds, the ABA now seeks to serve all birders with a...
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birds of South America Lists by smaller geographic unit Lists of birds by region Extinct birds List of recently extinct bird species List of Late Quaternary...
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This is a list of bird species recorded in South America. South America is the "Bird Continent": It boasts records of 3485 species, more than any other...
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Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals...
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characters, Angry Birds Toons (2013–2016), a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)...
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American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a non-profit membership organization with the mission of conserving wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas...
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evolved in many different birds independently, demonstrating repeated convergent evolution. There were families of flightless birds, such as the now-extinct...
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(1967). The Birds Of America. Dover Publications. OCLC 555150. Burke, Don (2005). The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets. p...
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Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/695 doi:10...
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Great blue heron (category Birds of North America)
Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds...
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R. (22 June 2020), "Audubon's Bird of Washington: unravelling the fraud that launched The birds of America", Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club...
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J. (2013). The dominance of zoophagous birds: just a cliché?. In South American and Antarctic Continental Cenozoic Birds (pp. 87-102). Springer, Dordrecht...
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in Central Park Zoo. Birds-of-paradise are closely related to the corvids. Birds-of-paradise range in size from the king bird-of-paradise at 50 g (1.8 oz)...
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Bald eagle (redirect from National bird of the United States of America)
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair...
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see Endemism in birds. This article covers western North America, i.e. the regions of the United States and Canada which lie west of the Great Plains...
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humans; bird conservation groups work to protect birds and to influence governments to do so. Birds have appeared in the mythologies and religions of many...
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nyan-DOOZ) or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes...
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Anhinga (redirect from American darter)
(1843). The Birds of America. J.B. Chevalier. pp. 443–457. Wood, Tom; Williamson, Sheri L.; Glassberg, Jeffrey (2005). Birds of North America. Sterling...
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Mourning dove (redirect from The American Mourning Dove)
turtledove. It is one of the most abundant and widespread North American birds and a popular gamebird, with more than 20 million birds (up to 70 million in...
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