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    The four species of avocets /ˈævəsɛt/ are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name comes from Latin recurvus...
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    The pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe...
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    The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae, found in North America. It spends much...
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  • Avocet is the common name of a genus of wading birds, Recurvirostra. Avocet may also refer to: Avocet snipe eel, a fish Avro Avocet, a 1920s British naval...
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  • Avocet is the 12th album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1979 in UK. The album was first released by Ex Libris Records in Denmark in...
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  • USS Avocet may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Avocet (AVP-4), laid down as Minesweeper No. 19 on 13 September 1917 at Baltimore...
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    The Avocet ProJet was a Very Light Jet (VLJ) introduced by Avocet Aircraft, a Westport, CT., based company founded by aviation entrepreneurs Andrew Chao...
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    The Andean avocet (Recurvirostra andina) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt bird family, Recurvirostridae. It is resident in the Andes, breeding...
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  • Avocet Mining plc is a West African-focussed gold mining and exploration company with its primary operations in Burkina Faso and Guinea. The company is...
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    The Avro Type 584 Avocet was a British single-engined naval fighter prototype, designed and built by Avro. While the Avocet was not built in numbers,...
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    The Avocet Line is the railway line in Devon, England connecting Exeter with Exmouth. It was originally built by the London and South Western Railway,...
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  • war, she was reactivated in 1953 as minehunter USS Avocet (AMCU-16). She was named for the avocet, a long-legged, web-footed shore bird possessing a slender...
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    The red-necked avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) also known as the Australian avocet, cobbler, cobbler's awl, and painted lady, is a wader of the...
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    USS Avocet (AM-19/AVP-4) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper initially acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid...
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  • Blackpool, leaving Jake, the other children, and Miss Avocet as prey for Malthus. Malthus kills Miss Avocet, then Jake and the children escape just as the Luftwaffe...
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    The avocet snipe eel (Avocettina infans) is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae, found in all oceans except the Mediterranean and the eastern Pacific...
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    It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets (one genus) and the stilts (two genera). Avocets and stilts range in length from 30 to 46 cm (12...
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  • stake in Avocet Sports Ltd., a UK distributor of bicycles, e-bikes, bicycle parts, and accessories. Insync Bikes brand was launched by Avocet in November...
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    Digby and Sowton railway station is on the Avocet Line in Devon, England. A small station known as Clyst St Mary and Digby Halt was opened by the London...
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    Wannanup (redirect from Avocet Island)
    boating and fishing. Islands created by the canals within the suburb include Avocet Island, Sandpiper Island and Cormorant Island in the east and Endeavour...
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  • wights that will rule the world. Soon, Miss Peregrine's former mentor Miss Avocet arrives at the loop mad with grief over the kidnapping of her wards to wights...
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  • for the United States Shipping Board in 1919 and sunk in 1942 as Empire Avocet Cotati (comics), a fictional alien race in the Marvel Universe Coati, a...
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  • Industries attempted to enter the VLJ (very light jet) Market by launching the Avocet ProJet, a 6–8 seat high utilization air taxi with a list price almost half...
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    manufacturing motorcycle tires in 1952. Inoue Rubber also manufactured tires for Avocet, a US "company that designs and markets parts and accessories for bicycles...
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    Lagoon hosts pied avocet, the common ringed plover, grey plover and little stint. Ribatejo Province on the Tagus supports pied avocet, grey plover, dunlin...
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  • internationally important site for migrating and breeding birds, including pied avocets. During the North Sea flood of 1953, almost the entire island was flooded...
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    include the little bittern, black bittern, red knot, jack snipe and pied avocet (on transient sandbanks). The sanctuary is also host to mudskippers, fiddler...
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    2023, and a regular half hourly local rail service now extended from the Avocet Line across Exeter to include the Riviera Line. Exeter Airport is the only...
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    both platforms. Both platforms have step-free access. All trains on the Avocet Line from Exmouth to Exeter St Davids and Paignton call at Topsham. Connections...
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    Mendes Cameo 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Miss Esmeralda Avocet Tim Burton 2017 Tulip Fever The Abbess Justin Chadwick Victoria & Abdul...
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