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White water lilies are a typical marsh plant in European areas of deeper water. Many kinds of birds nest in marshes; this one is a yellow-headed blackbird.. Marshes provide a habitat for many species of plants, animals, and insects that have adapted to living in flooded conditions or other environments. [1]
Marshland (Spanish: La isla mínima, transl. 'The Tiny Island' ) is a 2014 Spanish thriller film directed by Alberto Rodríguez which stars Javier Gutiérrez and Raúl Arévalo . The film was presented at the 62nd San Sebastián International Film Festival on 20 September 2014. [ 3 ]
In the 1980s and 1990s, this marshland was drained by upstream dams and water control structures, down to 10% of the original area. [27] The marshland is located on the intercontinental flyway of migratory birds and is used by two-thirds of West Asia's water fowl. [27] The marsh is currently dominated by an invasive grass, Phragmites australis ...
The Pontine Marshes (/ ˈ p ɒ n t aɪ n / PON-tyne, US also / ˈ p ɒ n t iː n / PON-teen; Italian: Agro Pontino [ˈaːɡro ponˈtiːno], formerly also Paludi Pontine; Latin: Pomptīnus Ager [sg.] by Titus Livius, [1] Pomptīna Palus [sg.] and Pomptīnae Paludes [pl.] by Pliny the Elder [2] [3]) is an approximately quadrangular area of former ...
Marshland, formerly known as Skunk Cabbage Flat, is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was settled by Z.B. Bryant in 1862. Its post office was established around 1873.
The East Rutherford stadium is situated next to a marshland that was a dumping ground for toxic chemicals for decades, amongst factories, endless concrete car parks and America’s second largest ...
The Marsh Arabs (Arabic: عرب الأهوار ʻArab al-Ahwār "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also referred to as Ahwaris, the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان "dweller in the plains") or Shroog (Mesopotamian Arabic: شروگ "those from the east") [3] —the latter two often considered derogatory in the present day—are Arab inhabitants of the Mesopotamian marshlands in the modern-day south Iraq ...
The marsh fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.Commonly distributed in the Palearctic region, the marsh fritillary's common name derives from one of its several habitats, marshland.