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Alicanto – bird with luminescent feathers which feeds on gold or silver [1] Anqa – large mysterious or fabulous female bird; Anzû (Mesopotamian) – massive bird who can breathe fire and water; Bare-fronted Hoodwink – bird with the ability to be "almost seen" Bird People. Alkonost – female with body of a bird
The Beebe, Arkansas bird deaths were repeated again on New Year's Eve of the following year, 2011, with the reported number of dead birds being 5,000. [ 14 ] On 3 January 2011, more than five hundred starlings, red-winged blackbirds, and sparrows fell dead in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana .
A large pelican can attain a wingspan of 3.6 m (12 ft), second only to the great albatrosses among all living birds. [ 117 ] The largest of the cormorants is the flightless cormorant of the Galapagos Islands ( Nannopterum harrisi ), at up to 5 kg (11 lb) and 1 m (3.3 ft), although large races in the great cormorant ( Phalacrocorax carbo ) can ...
Gorged birds on the ground can be vulnerable, being practically grounded, which was an advantage historically to Aboriginal hunters. [8] Human gliders have encountered wedge-tailed eagles at more than 3,000 m (9,800 ft). [8]
Bushmen bowhunting for bushmeat in Botswana. Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. [10] The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, etc.), for recreation/taxidermy (see trophy hunting), although it may also be done for ...
The bird is also Michigan's state bird of peace. [49] The mourning dove appears as the Carolina turtle-dove on plate 286 of Audubon's Birds of America. [19] References to mourning doves appear frequently in Native American literature. Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, one of the first published Native American women authors.
A few birds were recorded in 2004 following several decades of increasing rarity. There was also an unconfirmed sighting in Albania in 2007. A survey to find out whether this bird still exists is currently being undertaken by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (BirdLife in the UK).
The greater noctule bat can catch birds in flight. [168] Some species, like the greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus) hunt fish. They use echolocation to detect small ripples on the water's surface, swoop down and use specially enlarged claws on their hind feet to grab the fish, then take their prey to a feeding roost and consume it. [171]