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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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Chthoniidae is a family of pseudoscorpions within the superfamily Chthonioidea.The family contains more than 600 species in about 30 genera. Fossil species are known from Baltic, Dominican, and Burmese amber. [1]
The genus Ptilinopus was introduced in 1825 by the English naturalist William Swainson with the rose-crowned fruit dove (Ptilinopus regina) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek words πτίλον ptilon meaning "down feather" with πούς pous meaning "foot".
Ageing and sexing (PDF; 5.1 MB) by Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze "Gallinago gallinago". Avibase. Gallinago gallinago at Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Items, photos and sounds related to Gallinago gallinago at Europeana: Europe's digital library, museum and archive; BirdLife species factsheet for Gallinago gallinago
Tailorbirds are small birds, most belonging to the genus Orthotomus.While they were often placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, recent research suggests they more likely belong in the Cisticolidae and they are treated as such in Del Hoyo et al. [2] One former species, the mountain tailorbird (and therefore also its sister species rufous-headed tailorbird), is actually closer to an ...
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