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As a University of Toronto student, Shanahan designed and performed in a moose costume at the park, [1] to replace the more "motley-looking thing" they already had. [2] [Note 1] The second moose costume was uncomfortable, so he designed a more comfortable bird costume. A friend suggested to him the Blue Jays might want a mascot.
Bull Moose may refer to: Bull moose, a mature male moose; Bull Moose Party, a progressive political party active in the United States from 1912–1920; Bull Moose Music, an independent retailer and record store chain based in Portland, Maine; Bull Moose Jackson (1919–1989), an American blues and rhythm-and-blues singer; Bull Moose Township ...
The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae.It is found in boreal forests of North America north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona.
The Chinese classic Book of Rites mentions the Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise (Dark Warrior), Azure Dragon, and White Tiger as heraldic animals on war flags; [3] they were the names of asterisms associated with the four cardinal directions: South, North, East, and West, respectively.
The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé turned rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.
Azulão ("big blue") A blue bird Club Athletico Paranaense: Fura-Cão A dog in a luchador get-up; name alludes to "furacão" (hurricane), the team's nickname [8] Clube Atlético Mineiro: Galo A black-and-white feathered rooster: CRB: Galo-da-campina A small white-red bird (the name translates literally into "country rooster") Clube de Regatas ...
The lesser nighthawk is a smaller bird and displays more buffy on the undertail coverts, where the common nighthawk shows white. Common nighthawks and Antillean nighthawks exhibit entirely dark on the basal portion of the primary feathers , whereas lesser nighthawks have bands of buffy spots.
The head, neck and body are white; a small crest forms a black spot on top of the head, and the area around the eyes, particularly towards the bill, is also black. The wings are black with a noticeable white leading edge, and the bird has a brownish tail barred black-dark grey and with white tip.