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Mexican featherwork, also called "plumería", was an important artistic and decorative technique in the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods in what is now Mexico. Although feathers have been prized and feather works created in other parts of the world, those done by the amanteca or feather work specialists impressed Spanish conquerors, leading to ...
The bird featured on the Mexican coat of arms is the golden eagle. This bird is known in Spanish as águila real (literally, "royal eagle"). In 1960, the Mexican ornithologist Martín del Campo identified the eagle in the pre-Hispanic codex as a crested caracara or "quebrantahuesos", a species common in Mexico (although the name "eagle" is ...
An account of the alicanto was published by folklorist Julio Vicuña Cifuentes [] in 1914/1915. [1] A similar description can be found paraphrased in the English-translated version of Book of Imaginary Beings (1969) by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, under the chapter of "Fauna of Chile", [2] which was one of four chapters not found in the original Spanish version by Borges but expanded in ...
The Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti), also known as the Iberian imperial eagle, the Spanish eagle or Adalbert's eagle, is a species of eagle native to the Iberian Peninsula. The binomial commemorates Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. Due to its distinct "epaulettes", old literature often referred to this species as the white-shouldered eagle ...
Quetzals (/ k ɛ t ˈ s ɑː l, ˈ k ɛ t s əl /) are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family. They are found in forests, especially in humid highlands, with the five species from the genus Pharomachrus being exclusively Neotropical, while a single species, the eared quetzal, Euptilotis neoxenus, is found in Guatemala, sometimes in Mexico and very locally in the southernmost United ...
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in ...
The American Ornithological Society will be changing the names of all birds currently named after people (152 species in the U.S. and Canada). This colorful bird is named after a slave owner.
This is a list of national birds, including official birds of overseas territories and other states described as nations. Most species in the list are officially designated. Most species in the list are officially designated.