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Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...
A snowbird is a person who migrates from the colder northern parts of North America to warmer southern locales, typically during the winter. The southern locales include the Sun Belt and Hawaii in the United States, as well as Mexico and the Caribbean. Snowbirds used to primarily be retired or older, but are increasingly of all ages.
Articles relating to avian humanoids in folklore and fiction, people with the characteristics of birds. Subcategories This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
As of January 9th 2025 according to the iGoTerra website, there are 18 birders who have added 9,000 or more species of birds to their life lists. An additional 15 birders have added at least 8,000 species of life birds. Note: all known sources of bird species life list data are self-reported. Birders with over 8,000 species include:
Bird People may apply to: Avian humanoids; The Crow Nation, known in their language as Absaroka, or the Bird People; Bird People, a 2014 French film;
A 2007 survey of over 55,000 people found that chronotypes tend to follow a normal distribution, with extreme morning and evening types on the far ends. [6] There are studies that suggest genes determine whether a person is a lark or an evening person in the same way it is implicated in people's attitude toward authority, unconventional behavior, as well as reading and television viewing ...
Said to cast a human shadow until it kills a person, whereupon it begins casting its own shadow. The peryton is a fictional hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird . The peryton was invented by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings , using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval ...
Birds have themselves been deified, as in the case of the common peacock, which is perceived as Mother Earth by the people of southern India. [303] In the ancient world, doves were used as symbols of the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar), [ 304 ] [ 305 ] the Canaanite mother goddess Asherah , [ 304 ] [ 305 ] [ 306 ] and the ...