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  2. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    addled eggs Also, wind eggs; hypanema. [5] Eggs that are not viable and will not hatch. [6] See related: overbrooding. afterfeather Any structure projecting from the shaft of the feather at the rim of the superior umbilicus (at the base of the vanes), but typically a small area of downy barbs growing in rows or as tufts.

  3. Yellow-billed amazon - Wikipedia

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    Its populations are fragmented and it has a small range. It is threatened by habitat loss, illegal trapping for the pet trade, and felling of trees with suitable nesting cavities. They are also threatened by potential hybridization with non-endemic pet amazon parrots , which occasionally escape particularly during the hurricane season.

  4. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  5. Habitat fragmentation - Wikipedia

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    Habitat fragmented by numerous roads near the Indiana Dunes National Park. Area is the primary determinant of the number of species in a fragment [ 19 ] and the relative contributions of demographic and genetic processes to the risk of global population extinction depend on habitat configuration, stochastic environmental variation and species ...

  6. Cheetah - Wikipedia

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    This subspecies occurs in the northern Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia and South Sudan in small and heavily fragmented populations; in 2016, the largest population of 238 individuals occurred in the northern CAR and southeastern Chad. It diverged genetically from the southeast African cheetah 72,000–16,000 years ago. [21]

  7. Turquoise parrot - Wikipedia

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    The turquoise parrot was trapped for the aviary trade and used as pie-filling. Almost all of its preferred habitat, the Cumberland Plain, across western Sydney, had disappeared with development. [27] Over half the woodland in New South Wales, and 80% across Australia has been cleared, and the remaining habitat is fragmented. [33]

  8. Political fragmentation - Wikipedia

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    The strength of these effects has been hypothesized to depend on whether it is the government or the opposition that are fragmented. [4] However, the political fragmentation of parliaments has little causal effect on a number of dimensions of the quality of democracy. [ 5 ]

  9. Ejecta - Wikipedia

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    In an explosive eruption, large amounts of gas are dissolved in extremely viscous lava; this lava froths to the surface until the material is expelled rapidly due to the trapped pressure. Sometimes in such an event a lava plug or volcanic neck forms from lava that solidifies inside a volcano's vent, causing heat and pressure to build up to an ...