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  2. Category:Lists of fauna of Arizona - Wikipedia

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    List of birds of Yuma County, Arizona; List of Lepidoptera of Arizona; F. List of fishes native to Arizona; L. List of fauna of the Lower Colorado River Valley; M.

  3. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    Some birds, like the ruby-crowned kinglet, use a combination of these tactics. "Crevice-gleaning" is a niche particular to dry and rocky habitats. Gleaning birds are typically small with compact bodies and have small, sharply pointed beaks. Birds often specialize in a particular niche, such as a particular stratum of forest or type of ...

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Ornithology - Wikipedia

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    The capture and marking of birds enable detailed studies of life history. Techniques for capturing birds are varied and include the use of bird liming for perching birds, mist nets for woodland birds, cannon netting for open-area flocking birds, the bal-chatri trap for raptors, [78] decoys and funnel traps for water birds. [79] [80]

  6. Bird intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Scientists have discovered that birds know to avoid the plants where toxic animals dwell. A University of Bristol team have shown for the very first time that birds do not just learn the colours of dangerous prey, they can also learn the appearance of the plants such insects live on.

  7. Jacanidae - Wikipedia

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    The jacanas (sometimes referred to as Jesus birds or lily trotters) are a group of tropical waders in the family Jacanidae. They are found in the tropical regions around the world. They are noted for their elongated toes and toenails that allow them to spread out their weight while foraging on floating or semi-emergent aquatic vegetation.

  8. Synanthrope - Wikipedia

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    Pigeons intermingle with tourists in Venice. A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolved to live near humans and benefit from human settlements and their environmental modifications (see also anthropophilia for animals who live close to humans as parasites).

  9. Merriam's elk - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms Cervus elaphus merriami The Merriam's elk ( Cervus canadensis merriami ) is an extinct subspecies of elk once found in the arid lands of the southwestern United States (in Arizona , New Mexico and Texas ), as well as in Mexico . [ 4 ]