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Thayer's 1902 patent application. He failed to convince the US Navy. The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, author of The Colours of Animals (1890) discovered the countershading of various insects, including the pupa or chrysalis of the purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris, [2] the caterpillar larvae of the brimstone moth, Opisthograptis luteolata [a] and of the peppered moth, Biston ...
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A highly social bird, most starlings associate in flocks of varying sizes throughout the year and are widely known for a distinctive, often dramatic swarming behavior known as murmuration [8] — a simultaneously synchronized and seemingly random flock movement characterized by sudden, erratic direction changes without an observable leader.
The top layer (the bird) is partially transparent, so the background clearly can be seen through its wing. In this picture the top layer has a drop shadow , a red color overlay of 40%, a gradient overlay from red to yellow of 20% opacity, and a slight bevel effect.
With its long decurved bill and brown body, the curlew resembles the kiwi. So when the first Polynesian settlers arrived, they may have applied the word kiwi to the newfound bird. [11] The bird's name is spelled with a lower-case k and, being a word of Māori origin, normally stays as kiwi when pluralised. [12] [failed verification]
The baya weaver (Ploceus philippinus) is a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Flocks of these birds are found in grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub and secondary growth and they are best known for their hanging retort shaped nests woven from leaves.