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The dorsal and anal fins have 12–14 rays. Young specimens have a slender build; older specimens acquire a higher and broader body shape. The roach can often be recognized by the big red spot in the iris above and beside the pupil. [4] Colours of the eye and fins can be very pale, however, in some environments. [3]
The Australian budgerigar, or shell parakeet, is a popular pet and the most common parakeet. Parakeets comprise about 115 species of birds that are seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build, and long, tapering tails.
Motacillidae is a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. They include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. They are slender, ground feeding insectivores of open country. Gray wagtail, Motacilla cinerea Tunstall, 1771; Western yellow wagtail, Motacilla flava Linnaeus, 1758; Ancient Egyptian (possibly): bnw (meaning unknown)
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere. Rock pigeon, Columba livia (I) Metallic pigeon, Columba vitiensis; Spotted dove, Streptopelia chinensis (I) Pacific emerald dove, Chalcophaps longirostris; Zebra dove, Geopelia striata (I) Red-bellied fruit-dove, Ptilinopus greyi
Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches, or bishops.These names come from the nests of intricately woven vegetation created by birds in this family.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Northern Territory is a territory in Australia, with 448 species of bird recorded.. This list is based on the 1996 classification by Sibley and Monroe (though there has been a recent (2008) extensive revision of Australian birds by Christidis and Boles [1]), which has resulted in some lumping and splitting. [2]
The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is an extinct species of curlew native to Eurasia and North Africa. Isotope analysis suggests the majority of the former population bred in the Kazakh Steppe despite a record from the Siberian swamps, and was migratory , formerly wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean .