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Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...
As of January 9th 2025 according to the iGoTerra website, there are 18 birders who have added 9,000 or more species of birds to their life lists. An additional 15 birders have added at least 8,000 species of life birds. Note: all known sources of bird species life list data are self-reported. Birders with over 8,000 species include:
Articles relating to avian humanoids in folklore and fiction, people with the characteristics of birds. Subcategories This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
Phoebe Snetsinger (née Burnett; June 9, 1931 – November 23, 1999) was an American birder famous for having seen and documented birds of 8,398 different species, [1] more than anyone else in history at the time, and was the first person to see more than 8,000. [2] Her memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time, explores this achievement. She traveled ...
A 2007 survey of over 55,000 people found that chronotypes tend to follow a normal distribution, with extreme morning and evening types on the far ends. [6] There are studies that suggest genes determine whether a person is a lark or an evening person in the same way it is implicated in people's attitude toward authority, unconventional behavior, as well as reading and television viewing ...
Bird People may apply to: Avian humanoids; The Crow Nation, known in their language as Absaroka, or the Bird People; Bird People, a 2014 French film;
The Bird Men (former name The Birder), a 2013 film starring Fred Willard; Birdman, also called Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), a 2014 film by Alejandro González Iñárritu; Birdperson, a character in the television series Rick and Morty; Harvey Birdman, a fictional Hanna-Barbera character Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
Birds have themselves been deified, as in the case of the common peacock, which is perceived as Mother Earth by the people of southern India. [303] In the ancient world, doves were used as symbols of the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar), [ 304 ] [ 305 ] the Canaanite mother goddess Asherah , [ 304 ] [ 305 ] [ 306 ] and the ...