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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 ...
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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
Subfamilies and genera within the family Chitonidae include: Subfamily Chitoninae Rafinesque, 1815. Chiton Linnaeus, 1758 – the type genus of the family; Amaurochiton Thiele, 1893
Name Other names Description Purported location Depiction British big cats [34] Alien big cats (ABCs), phantom cats, mystery cats, English lions, Beast of Bodmin, Beast of Exmoor: Carnivorous mammal Great Britain Chupacabra [35] Chupacabras (Spanish for goat-sucker) Puerto Rico (originally), South and Central America, Southern North America ...
Common name Binomial name + authority IOC sequence Crimson topaz: Topaza pella (Linnaeus, 1758) 1 Fiery topaz: Topaza pyra (Gould, 1846) 2 White-necked jacobin: Florisuga mellivora (Linnaeus, 1758) 3 Black jacobin: Florisuga fusca (Vieillot, 1817) 4 White-tipped sicklebill: Eutoxeres aquila (Bourcier, 1847) 5 Buff-tailed sicklebill: Eutoxeres ...
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Males and females of many fruit dove species look very different. For example, the female many-colored fruit dove shares the male's crimson crown and deep pink undertail feathers, but is otherwise green, whereas the male has a crimson on the upper back and has areas of yellow, olive, cinnamon, and grey. [4] [5]