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The bird's name is given as Karšiptar or Karšift. [29] According to scholarship, its name would mean "black-winged" (from Karši-"black", cognate to Sanskrit kṛṣṇá and Slavic chjerno; and ptar-, cognate to Greek pterón). The name possibly refers to a raven, since this bird plays the role of divine messenger in several mythologies. [30 ...
Crane (bird) Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes. The family has 15 species placed in four genera which are Antigone, Balearica, Leucogeranus, and Grus. [ 1] They are large birds with long necks and legs, a tapering form, and long secondary feathers on the wing that ...
In 1743, the naturalist George Edwards included the mourning dove with the English name "long-tail'd dove" and the Latin name Columba macroura in his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Edwards's pictures of the male and female doves were drawn from live birds that had been shipped to England from the West Indies. [6]
Serinus canarius domesticus[ 1] Linnaeus 1758, I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1861[ 3] The domestic canary, often simply known as the canary ( Serinus canaria forma domestica[ 4] ), is a domesticated form of the wild canary, a small songbird in the finch family originating from the Macaronesian Islands of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Southern white-faced owl. Southern white-fringed antwren. Southern yellow white-eye. Southern yellow-billed hornbill. Southern yellowthroat. Souza's shrike. Spangle-cheeked tanager. Spangled coquette.
Pages in category "Legendary birds" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ababil (mythology)
The caladrius, according to Roman mythology, is a snow-white bird that lives in the king's house. It is said to be able to take the sickness into itself and then fly away, dispersing the sickness and healing both itself and the sick person. The caladrius legend formed part of medieval bestiary materials, which typically provided a Christian ...
Bird Names for Birds is a campaign to change the common names of American birds named after people, and to redress the recognition in ornithology of figures with racist or colonial pasts. Launched in June 2020 by ornithologists Jordan E. Rutter and Gabriel Foley with a public petition, in the midst of the George Floyd protests and in the ...