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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:
Jake Bird (1901–1949), American serial killer and burglar; Jake Bird (baseball) (born 1995), American baseball pitcher; Jean Bird (1912–1957), British pilot; John Bird (actor) (1936–2022), British actor and comedian; John Bird (artist) (1766–1829), Welsh landscape artist; John Bird (astronomer) (1709–1776), British astronomer and ...
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 ...
A "Phantom" named Phoenix is one of the main villains in Kamen Rider Wizard. In the Harry Potter film series, Dumbledore has a pet Phoenix named Fawkes. In High School DxD, a royal family of devils called the Phenex Clan have the inherent powers of phoenixes, including pyrokinesis and immortality, which manifests as high-speed regeneration.
Arthur Cleveland Bent didn't just write the book on North American birds -- he wrote 21 of them. His collection of rare species is at Bristol Aggie.
The bird's name will no longer acknowledge John James Audubon, the famous bird illustrator the National Audubon Society is named after in recognition of his contributions to the field of ornithology.
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
Nov. 1—Every spring, a small songbird with a brilliant black and yellow face visits the Inland Northwest. Many bird watchers consider it a treat to catch even a glimpse of a Townsend's warbler ...