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Palmate feet – Chilean flamingo. Totipalmate feet – blue-footed booby. Western grebe presenting a lobate foot. Lobate feet – a chick of the Eurasian coot. The great crested grebe. The feet in loons [2] and grebes [2] [7] are placed far at the rear of the body - a powerful accommodation to swimming underwater, [7] but a handicap for walking.
eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance.Originally restricted to sightings from the Western Hemisphere, the project expanded to include New Zealand in 2008, [1] and again expanded to cover the whole world in June 2010.
The Platts assessment process determines the value of physical commodities 15–30 days forward for many oil products loading in Singapore. [1]MOPS is an acronym that stands for the Mean of Platts Singapore, and typically refers to any contract mechanism that derives its value by referencing the average of a set of Singapore-based oil price assessments published by Platts.
Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific semipalmatus is Latin and comes from semi, "half" and palma, "palm". Like the English name, this refers to its only partially webbed ...
Adding to this conundrum are fossilized footprints of bird-like tracks that are 210 million years old—a good 60 million years before the arrival of the genus Archaeopteryx, one of the oldest ...
Chloropyron palmatum (formerly Cordylanthus palmatus) is an endangered species of salt-tolerant, flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae.It is a low, highly branched herbaceous annual with each flower enclosed by a single, characteristically palmate bract.
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As 2024 comes to a close, the index is poised to be Southeast Asia’s best-performing stock market index. The STI, which tracks the 30 largest companies by market value traded on Singapore’s ...