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An unusual singing bird box by Frères Rochat, ca. 1810. The bird is shown in a tiny cage, not concealed inside the box as usual. A singing bird box (boîte à oiseau chanteur in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.
A singing bird box made about 1890 by Bontems. Bird dressed with iridescent hummingbird feathers and case made of tortoiseshell. The famous magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871) was known for creating automata for his stage shows.
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. The county is in Northern California, located on the California coast, including northern Monterey Bay, and west of the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley. It includes the southwestern Santa Cruz Mountains. [1] [2]
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. Contents
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Singing quail Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Odontophoridae Genus: Dactylortyx Ogilvie-Grant, 1893 Species: D. thoracicus Binomial name Dactylortyx thoracicus (Gambel, 1848) The singing quail (Dactylortyx thoracicus) is a species of bird in the family ...
Birds sing louder and at a higher pitch in urban areas, where there is ambient low-frequency noise. [58] [59] Traffic noise was found to decrease reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major) due to the overlap in acoustic frequency. [60] During the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced traffic noise led to birds in San Francisco singing 30% more ...