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The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.Classified in the wader order Charadriiformes, the family consists of one genus, Chionis with two species. They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the snowy sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and coastal southern South America in the southern winter; they are the only bird family endemic as breeders to the ...
It is a medium-sized species of pigeon, being 33–36 cm (13–14 in) long and weighing 259 g (9.1 oz) on average. Adult males have slate-grey upperparts, chestnut-maroon throats and bellies, whitish breasts, and a pale grey terminal tail band. The lores and orbital region are bright red. Females are similar, but have grayish breasts and grey ...
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Subfamilies and genera within the family Chitonidae include: Subfamily Chitoninae Rafinesque, 1815. Chiton Linnaeus, 1758 – the type genus of the family; Amaurochiton Thiele, 1893
Birdwings are typified by large size (up to a maximum body length of 7.6 cm or 3 inches and a wingspan of 28 cm or 11 inches in O. alexandrae), showy colouration (in contrasting shades of green, yellow, black, white, and sometimes blue or orange), and slender, lanceolate forewings.
Turntable video of an adult male specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. The passenger pigeon was sexually dimorphic in size and coloration. It weighed between 260 and 340 g (9.2 and 12.0 oz). [34] The adult male was about 390 to 410 mm (15.4 to 16.1 in) in length. [35] It had a bluish-gray head, nape, and hindneck.
The prothorax is notably elongated and mobile, giving the group its common name of snakefly. The three pairs of legs are similar in size and appearance. The two pair of dragonfly-like wings are similar in size, with a primitive venation pattern, a thickened leading edge, and a coloured wingspot, the pterostigma. Inocelliids lack a cross vein in ...
The smallest adult size among living cephalopods is attained by the so-called pygmy squids, Idiosepius, [32] and certain diminutive species of the genus Octopus, both of which weigh less than 1 gram (0.035 oz) at maturity. [33]