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The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.Classified in the wader order Charadriiformes, the family consists of one genus, Chionis with two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the snowy sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and coastal southern South America in the southern winter; they are the only bird family endemic as breeders to the ...
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It is a free-access, but not free-licensed, on-line audiovisual library [3] of the world's birds with the aim of posting videos, photos and sound recordings showing a variety of biological aspects (e.g. subspecies, plumages, feeding, breeding, etc.) for every species. It is a non-profit endeavour fuelled by material from more than one hundred ...
The full name of Los Angeles is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.” 9. Bananas will grow blue if they are under black light.
Chthoniidae is a family of pseudoscorpions within the superfamily Chthonioidea.The family contains more than 600 species in about 30 genera. Fossil species are known from Baltic, Dominican, and Burmese amber. [1]
The specific name exanthematicus is derived from the Greek word exanthem / ɛ k ˈ s æ n θ ɪ m /, meaning an eruption or blister of the skin. [3] French botanist and zoologist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc [4] originally described this lizard as Lacerta exanthematica in reference to the large oval scales on the back of its neck.
The Asian giant toad (Phrynoidis asper), sometimes referred to as the river toad, is a species of true toad native to Mainland Southeast Asia and the Greater Sundas. [2] It is a medium-large toad, but it is easily confused with its larger relative, the giant river toad (P. juxtasper).