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The lightning bird or impundulu or thekwane (or izulu, [1] inyoni yezulu [2]) is a creature in the folklore of the Zulu people. [1] [2] [3]The impundulu (which translates as "lightning bird") takes the form of a black and white bird, the size of a person, which is said to summon thunder and lightning with its wings and talons.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird ... Black-and-white-casqued hornbill ...
Black-throated butcherbird is an alternative common name, as are Break o'day boy and organbird. [17] Leach also called it the black-throated crow shrike, [18] a name used by Gould for subspecies nigrogularis while calling subspecies picatus the pied crow-shrike. [19] ‘Jackeroo’ is a colloquial name from the Musgrave Ranges in Central ...
This name has priority over the use of the genus name in the combination Textor alecto that Temminck described in 1828, and which is a synonym for the first name of the white-billed buffalo-weaver, Coccothraustes albirostris, as named by Vieillot in 1817, and now assigned to the genus Bubalornis. [5]
The birds are very weak, as they had to survive the long trip down the coast and are out of their natural habitat. They get water from their food, so without food they are dehydrated and hungry.
Pica is a genus of seven species of birds in the family Corvidae in both the New World and the Old.It is one of several corvid genera whose members are known as magpies.. Pica have long tails and have predominantly black and white markings.
Icterids (/ ˈ ɪ k t ər ɪ d /) or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae (/ ɪ k ˈ t ɛr ɪ d i /), of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. The family contains 108 species and is divided into 30 genera. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red.
They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt fish by diving but some pick insects off the surface of fresh water.