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Southern white-faced owl. Southern white-fringed antwren. Southern yellow white-eye. Southern yellow-billed hornbill. Southern yellowthroat. Souza's shrike. Spangle-cheeked tanager. Spangled coquette.
Ornithophily. Ornithophily or bird pollination is the pollination of flowering plants by birds. This sometimes (but not always) coevolutionary association is derived from insect pollination ( entomophily) and is particularly well developed in some parts of the world, especially in the tropics, Southern Africa, and on some island chains. [1]
Myadestinae. Turdinae. The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the chats and European robins, as Old World flycatchers. Thrushes are small to medium-sized ground living birds that feed on ...
Lotus, a latinization of Greek lōtos ( λωτός ), [ 2] is a genus of flowering plants that includes most bird's-foot trefoils (also known as bacon-and-eggs[ 3]) and deervetches[ 4] and contains many dozens of species distributed in the eastern hemisphere, including Africa, Europe, western, southern, and eastern Asia, and Australia and New ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Japan. The avifauna of Japan include a total of 728 species, of which 19 are endemic , and 30 have been introduced by humans. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The ...
Birds of prey (raptors) are known to display patterns of sexual dimorphism. It is commonly believed that the dimorphisms found in raptors occur due to sexual selection or environmental factors. In general, hypotheses in favor of ecological factors being the cause for sexual dimorphism in raptors are rejected.
List of birds. Penguins. Ostriches. This article lists living orders and families of birds. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species. The passerines (perching birds) alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of ...
The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Florida. This list of birds of Florida includes species documented in the U.S. state of Florida and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC). As of November 2022, there were 539 species included in the official list. [ 1] Of them, 168 species and eight identifiable ...