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The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology. Bird skins are prepared by retaining the key bones of the wings, legs, and skull along with the skin and feathers. In the past, they were treated with arsenic to prevent fungal and insect (mostly dermestid) attack.
In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym).
Bird-in-Hand Hotel, a historic hotel built in 1852; Bird in Hand winery near Woodside in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia; Bird-in-Hand mine a historic gold mine after which the winery is named; Bird in Hand, a painting by Ellen Gallagher, in the collection of the Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom; Bird in Hand, a play by ...
When preening, a bird (such as this red lory) draws individual feathers through its beak, realigning and re-interlocking the barbules.. Preening is a maintenance behaviour found in birds that involves the use of the beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check.
The Huma (Persian: هما, pronounced Homā, Avestan: Homāio), also Homa or Homay, [1] is a mythical bird of Iranian [2] [3] legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live ...
A turning point came in the early twentieth century with the writings of Gerhard Heilmann of Denmark.An artist by trade, Heilmann had a scholarly interest in birds and from 1913 to 1916, expanding on earlier work by Othenio Abel, [12] published the results of his research in several parts, dealing with the anatomy, embryology, behavior, paleontology, and evolution of birds. [13]
The Origin of Birds is an early synopsis of bird evolution written in 1926 by Gerhard Heilmann, a Danish artist and amateur zoologist.The book was born from a series of articles published between 1913 and 1916 in Danish, and although republished as a book it received mainly criticism from established scientists and got little attention within Denmark.
Bird (mathematical artwork) Bird in Hand (painting) Bird in Space; Bird on Money; Bird stone; Bird-and-flower painting; Birds in Meitei culture; The Birds of America; The Birds (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape; The Blind Girl; The Blue Bird (Metzinger) Bouquet près de la fenêtre; The Boyhood of Raleigh; Bushel with ibex motifs