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    A History of British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes. Volume 1, Land Birds, appeared in 1797. Volume 2, Water...
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  • British Birds is a monthly ornithology magazine that was established in 1907. It is now published by BB 2000 Ltd, which is wholly owned by The British...
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    William Yarrell's A History of British Birds was first published as a whole in three volumes in 1843, having been serialised, three sheets (=48 pages)...
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    A History of the Birds of Europe, Including all the Species Inhabiting the Western Palearctic Region is a nine-volume ornithological book published in...
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    important of which were A History of British Fishes and the 1843 A History of British Birds. A History of British Fishes followed the example of Thomas Bewick's...
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    William Yarrell (category Use British English from May 2023)
    Yarrell is best known as the author of A History of British Fishes (2 vols., 1836) and A History of British Birds featuring 564 original engravings (in...
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    known as painters and engravers. Bewick is best known for his A History of British Birds, which is admired today mainly for its wood engravings, especially...
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    characteristics of feet 2nd century AD – Aelian mentions a number of birds in his work on animals. Birds are listed alphabetically 1037 – Death of Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn...
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    Ornithology (redirect from Study of Birds)
    Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the...
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    Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year. It is typically from north to south or...
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    Street, London in 1802. It was one of the texts, along with Thomas Bewick's contemporaneous A History of British Birds (2 volumes, 1797 and 1804) that made...
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  • "Birds of a Feather" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. It impacted US contemporary hit radio on July 2, 2024, as the second single...
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    Swan (redirect from Cob (bird))
    with English abridged version] doi:10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80053-0 A History of British Birds "Swan" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905. "Swan" . The New...
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    the birds and their features is recognized as a universal. The History of Animals contains many accurate eye-witness observations, in particular of the...
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    Yarrell, William (1845). A History of British Birds. Vol. 2. London: J. Van Voorst. p. 496. Pennant, Thomas (1776). British Zoology v.2. London: Benjamin...
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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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    Fulmar (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    R. A. (2005). "Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis". British Trust for Ornithology. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Bewick, Thomas (1847). A History of British Birds, volume...
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  • George Edwards (1693–1773), British naturalist, ornithologist and illustrator, author of A Natural History of Uncommon Birds Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg...
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    Rock ptarmigan (category Holarctic birds)
    Ralph (1797). "White Grouse". A History of British Birds, Volume 1: Land Birds. Beilby and Bewick. "The Official Bird of Nunavut | Nunavut Legislative...
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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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  • Birds of a Feather is a British television sitcom, created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, and stars Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph...
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    Human–dinosaur coexistence (category Birds and humans)
    The coexistence of avian dinosaurs (birds) and humans is well established historically and in modern times. The coexistence of non-avian dinosaurs and...
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  • with a pair of letters to The Times in 1913, when he wrote on 6 February that he had heard a cuckoo, contrary to Yarrell's History of British Birds which...
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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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    Great auk (category Birds of Greenland)
    Retrieved 29 April 2010. Bewick, Thomas (1847) [1804]. A History of British Birds. Vol. 2: Water Birds. Newcastle: R.E. Bewick. pp. 405–406. Linnaeus, C....
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  • Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC One from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998, then revived on ITV from 2 January 2014...
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  • The British farthing (derived from the Old English feorthing, a fourth part) was a British coin worth a quarter of an old penny (1⁄960 of a pound sterling)...
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    English artist and illustrator. He drew the bird illustrations for William Yarrell's 1843 History of British Birds. Fussell painted in various media, including...
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  • Birds In Britain was a BBC Radio series, broadcast from 1951 to 1963 on the Home Service, about wild birds. Its lead presenter was James Fisher. It was...
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    Procellariiformes (category Bird orders)
    (1843). A History of British Birds. Vol. III. John Van Voorst. p. 525. Bewick, Thomas (1847). A History of British Birds, volume II, Water Birds (revised ed...
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