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Avifauna includes 320 species, including eight kingfisher species. Birds such as Asian open bill, cormorants, darters, black ibis, and egrets are frequently seen in the park. Every year close to 120,000 winter visitors from abroad for wintering and 80,000 resident birds from different parts of India arrive for nesting during the monsoon season ...
Page Eight is a 2011 British political thriller, written and directed for the BBC by the British dramatist David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film Strapless. [1] The cast includes Bill Nighy , Rachel Weisz , Michael Gambon , Tom Hughes , Ralph Fiennes , and Judy Davis .
In the first film, Page Eight, Bill Nighy plays Johnny Worricker, a long-serving MI5 officer. He is involved in an investigation which results in him leaking a secret report, and having to leave the country for his own safety. In Turks and Caicos, he is drawn back into the situation of events that started the first film. At the end, both he and ...
Salting the Battlefield is a 2014 British political thriller television film, written and directed for the BBC by the British writer David Hare.It follows Page Eight, which aired on BBC Two in August 2011 and Turks & Caicos, which also aired in 2014, and concludes the Worricker Trilogy.
Kingfisher was a 46-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett III at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1675. [1] She was specially designed to counter the attacks of Algerine corsairs, or pirates, in the Mediterranean by masquerading as a merchantman, which she achieved by hiding her armament behind false bulkheads.
Forests, Kingfisher, London, 1992 ISBN 0-86272-915-7; Purnell's concise Encyclopedia of Nature, Chinery is well known for his books on insects : Insects of Britain and Northern Europe, 3rd edition, Collins field guide. ISBN 0-00-219918-1; Insects of Britain and Western Europe, Collins Guide, 1986 (reprinted in 1991)
What Moves the Dead is a 2022 horror novella by Ursula Vernon, writing under the pen name T. Kingfisher. It is based on the short story " The Fall of the House of Usher " by Edgar Allan Poe . The novella received critical acclaim, winning the 2023 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel and receiving a nomination for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best ...
The most extreme case was that of the collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) that was split into six species: the Pacific kingfisher, the Islet kingfisher, the Torresian kingfisher, the collared kingfisher, the Mariana kingfisher and the Melanesian kingfisher. [8] [9]