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Common name (Binomial name) Status Image Description Region and habitat Green-thighed parrot (Pionites leucogaster) Vulnerable [5] About 23 cm (9.1 in) long. Mostly green and pink feet; apricot-orange cap; a medium, stout parrot. Amazon region of Brazil Lives in lowland humid tropical and seasonally flooded forest. [6] Yellow-tailed parrot
The common name comes from the call of the familiar pied currawong of eastern Australia and is onomatopoeic. They were formerly known as crow-shrikes or bell-magpies . Despite their resemblance to crows and ravens, they are only distantly related to the corvidae , instead belonging to an Afro-Asian radiation of birds of superfamily Malaconotoidea .
The chickadee (specifically the black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus, formerly Parus atricapillus) is the official bird for the US state of Massachusetts, [5] the Canadian province of New Brunswick, [6] and the city of Calgary, Alberta. [7] The chickadee is also the state bird of Maine, but a species has never been specified. A proposed ...
The domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domesticus) is a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey.Although turkey domestication was thought to have occurred in central Mesoamerica at least 2,000 years ago, [1] recent research suggests a possible second domestication event in the area that is now the southwestern United States between ...
He temporarily became Rerun's dog in I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, and also starred in his own television special, It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown. [30] He was also a main character in Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown , where he is shown traveling from Needles to visit Snoopy to be the best beagle at his wedding.
The waxwings are a group of birds with soft silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. In the Bohemian and cedar waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax and give the group its name. These are arboreal birds of northern forests. They live on insects in summer and berries in winter. Bohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus (A)
The red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronata) is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. Notwithstanding its similar name, this bird is not closely related to the true cardinal family Cardinalidae. It is sometimes known as the Brazilian cardinal.
The birds head north again in February. Most have returned to the northern breeding range by mid-March to mid-April. [9] Migrating birds' arrival at and departure from the breeding range is highly irregular. In Ohio, for example, the earliest birds are seen in February, but the bulk of the population does not arrive until March and April. Birds ...