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American popular songs featuring this bird include "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)", written by Harry M. Woods. [52] Although the comic book superhero Robin was inspired by an N. C. Wyeth illustration of Robin Hood, [53] [54] a later version had his mother nicknaming him Robin because he was born on the first day of ...
As with many galliform species, the female (the hen) is smaller than the male (the tom) and much less colorful. With wingspans of 1.5–1.8 meters (almost 6 feet), the turkeys are the largest birds in the open forests in which they live and are rarely mistaken for any other species.
The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996).
American robin: Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766: 149 Black thrush: Turdus infuscatus (Lafresnaye, 1844) 150 Rufous-collared thrush: Turdus rufitorques Hartlaub, 1844: 151 Sooty thrush: Turdus nigrescens Cabanis, 1861: 152 Red-legged thrush: Turdus plumbeus Linnaeus, 1758: 153 Grand Cayman thrush (X) Turdus ravidus (Cory, 1886) 154 White ...
House finch (male) House finch (female) American goldfinch (male) American goldfinch (female) Order: Passeriformes Family: Fringillidae. Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries.
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The larger American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a much larger bird named from its similar colouration to the European robin, but the two birds are not closely related, with the American robin instead belonging to the same genus as the common blackbird (T. merula), a species which occupies much of the same range as the European robin. The ...
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's national electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the country's largest power plant failed, the government said, the latest of several such failures as ...