Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Bonin grosbeak or Bonin Islands grosbeak (Carpodacus ferreorostris) is an extinct finch. It is one of the diverse bird taxa that are vernacularly called "grosbeaks", but it is not closely related to the grosbeaks sensu stricto. Many authorities place the species in the genus Carpodacus, but some place it in its own genus, Chaunoproctus.
Forsalebyowner.com is the United States largest "by owner" real estate website. It provides a real estate advertising and information service that charges a flat fee to property owners who advertise their property on the company’s Website.
The Northern grosbeak-canary or Abyssinian grosbeak-canary, Crithagra donaldsoni; The Southern grosbeak-canary or Kenya grosbeak-canary, Crithagra buchanani; In addition, there are two extinct Fringillidae "grosbeaks": The Bonin grosbeak (Chaunoproctus ferreorostris), found only on the Ogasawara Islands, which was last recorded in 1832. Its ...
A Bonin petrel. The range of the Bonin petrel extends beyond the Ogasawaras to include other islands in the northern Pacific region. There are two restricted-range species of birds on the islands; the Japanese woodpigeon (Columba janthina) and the Near Threatened Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare), formerly known as "Bonin honeyeater". The ...
The Ogasawara greenfinch is a non-migratory or resident bird endemic to the Bonin and Iwo Islands. [14] Its preferred habitat for breeding is the dry lowland forest , in particular arid evergreen shrubs with a height of less than 2 metres (6 ft 7 in), [ 15 ] and it now breeds only on the small satellite islands around Haha-jima ( Mukō-jima ...
The Recall Bonin 2021 campaign has fallen about 1,350 signatures short of the amount needed to trigger a recall election, city officials said. Mike Bonin recall drive failed to turn in enough ...
The name Bonin comes from an 1817 article in the French Journal des Savans by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in which—among various other misunderstandings of his source material [3] —he misread a description of the islands as uninhabited (無人嶋, "desert island[s]") for their actual name, used the wrong reading of the characters (buninshima for mujintō), and then transcribed the resulting ...
Expedition Africa (12 acres or 4.8 hectares): the newest addition to the zoo, Expedition Africa is the largest-ever habitat expansion since opening. The area officially opened in 2024 and includes a state-of-the-art giraffe barn, a savanna area where multiple species mingle, and the renovated Love's Pachyderm Building, which includes animal habitats and a large event space.