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the Haryana Tourism Corporation tourist complexes after local birds in the Indian state of Haryana ?
the Heard Shag bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles and blue eye-rings?
the Humboldt Museum Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus bird , the Archaeopteryx
the Goldenface bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea ?
the Elfin-woods Warbler endemic bird of Puerto Rico first observed in 1968, is the last New World warbler to be discovered?
the Calayan Rail bird is a significant recent species discovery, announced on 16 August 2004
the Djibouti Francolin critically endangered species of bird , is only known from two isolated locations in Djibouti ?
the Long-tailed Broadbill bird in the genus Psarisomus ?
the Obscure Berrypecker New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings?
the unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus (pictured) gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings ?
there is no such bird as a woofen-poof
the social systems of some bee-eaters bird , including four tiers: pair, family, clan and colony ?
the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge bird recognized to possess teeth?
the Tigmamanukan Philippine mythological bird , can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?
the flightless adzebill predatory bird that lived in New Zealand , and was initially thought to be a kind of moa ?
the biodiversity of New Zealand bird families that flew in from Australia and insects , frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana ?
the Bateleur eagle in the bird family Accipitridae found in Africa?
Christian Jouanin French ornithologist , has described three species of birds , including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin ?
microchromosomes gene -rich chromosomes which are a typical genetic component in birds , and some groups of non-mammalian animals?
scaly leg bird disease caused by mites , and can be treated with petroleum jelly ?
Meller's Chameleon (pictured) catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue ?
Bundala National Park Sri Lanka harbors 197 species of birds , the highlight being the Greater Flamingo (pictured) , which migrate in large flocks?
peacocks (pictured) are among the 143 bird species recorded in Wasgamuwa National Park sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark bird , with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
Washingtonia genus of palm and produces a fruit , eaten by Native American people as a minor food source and by birds ?
Momotus genus of green and blue birds with raquet-shaped tails?
during his tenure as curator at Université Laval , François-Xavier Bélanger birds from the ground up?
the extinct Australian dromornithids birds known, are related to ducks and geese ?
despite its name, the Togian White-eye bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia , lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus ?
although the only known natural definitive host of the fluke Catatropis johnstoni marsh rice rat , its normal host may be a bird ?
Psilopterus cariama , making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds ?
a sotdae (pictured) is a tall wooden pole or stone pillar with a sculptured bird atop, traditionally set up for the purpose of folk belief in Korea ?
definitive hosts for the fluke Ascocotyle pindoramensis birds as well as the marsh rice rat ?
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