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He is considered a national hero and the national founder of modern Romania. [13] National mythical animal: Balaur [14] National bird: Golden eagle (featured on the national coat of arms) [14] [15] Great white pelican (as a symbol for the Danube Delta) [16] National animal: Eurasian lynx [14] [17] National tree: Oak [18] National poet: Mihai ...
Some species hold only an "unofficial" status. The Official status column is marked as Yes only if the bird currently holds the position of the official national bird. Additionally, the list includes birds that were once official but are no longer, as well as birds recognized as national symbols or for other symbolic roles.
Italian sparrow (national bird) Passer italiae [38] Jamaica: Red-billed streamertail (national bird) Trochilus polytmus [39] Latvia: White wagtail (national bird) Motacilla alba [30] Two-spotted ladybird (national insect) Adalia bipunctata [30] Lithuania: White stork (national bird) Ciconia ciconia [40] Malaysia: Malayan tiger (national animal ...
The waxwings are a group of birds with soft silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. In the Bohemian and cedar waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax and give the group its name. These are arboreal birds of northern forests. They live on insects in summer and berries in winter. Bohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus (A)
Illustration on the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós depicting Álmos legend from the Hungarian mythology: Dream of Emese with the Turul bird. [28] Avar gold treasure from the 7-9th century, it was found in 1799 in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary (now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania). It locates today at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
The coat of arms of Romania was adopted in the Romanian Parliament on 10 September 1992 as a representative coat of arms for Romania.The current coat of arms is based on the lesser coat of arms of interwar Kingdom of Romania (used between 1922 and 1947), which was designed in 1921 by the Transylvanian Hungarian heraldist József Sebestyén from Cluj, at the request of King Ferdinand I of ...
Orders, decorations, and medals of Romania (9 C, 13 P) Pages in category "National symbols of Romania" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
According to a systematic list of the Romanian vertebrate fauna, there are 732 species of vertebrates living in Romania. When grouped into classes, the largest number of these species are birds, with 382 species, followed by fish with 184. 110 of these species are mammals, 31 are reptiles, 20 are amphibians, while only four belong to the Cyclostomata class of jawless fish.