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68 relations: Ambrosia trifida, American sparrow, Ant, Aphid, Arctic ground squirrel, Arctostaphylos alpina, Banff National Park, Beak, Bee, Beetle, Birch, Bird migration, Bird nest, Blossom, Bud, Buff (colour), Butterfly, Canada, Carex, Christmas Bird Count, Cicada, Cyperaceae, Ecotone, Edward Harris (ornithologist), Empetrum nigrum, Ericaceae, Flight feather, Fly, Fruit, Global warming, Great horned owl, Great Plains, Grey jay, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Iva annua, Lapland longspur, Larix laricina, Leafhopper, Least-concern species, Lichen, Manitoba, Merlin (bird), Moth, Northern shrike, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Passerellidae, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Prairie, ..., Rufous, Saskatchewan, Scirpus, Seed, Sharp-shinned hawk, South Dakota, Spider, Stoat, Taiga, Tail, Tarsus (skeleton), Temperate coniferous forest, Texas, Thomas Nuttall, Vaccinium, Wildfire, Willow, Wing chord (biology). Expand index (18 more) »
Ambrosia trifida
Ambrosia trifida, the giant ragweed, is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family.
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American sparrow
American sparrows are a group of mainly New World passerine birds, forming part of the family Passerellidae.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
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Arctic ground squirrel
The Arctic ground squirrel (Spermophilus parryii or Urocitellus parryii) is a species of ground squirrel native to the Arctic.
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Arctostaphylos alpina
Arctostaphylos alpina, with the common names alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, or black bearberry is a dwarf shrub in the heather family Ericaceae.
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Banff National Park
Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park and was established in 1885.
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Beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.
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Bee
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.
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Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.
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Birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.
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Bird migration
Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.
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Bird nest
A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.
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Blossom
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.
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Bud
In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.
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Buff (colour)
Buff is the pale yellow-brown colour of the undyed leather of several animals.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Carex
Carex is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grassy plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books).
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Christmas Bird Count
The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually in the early Northern-hemisphere winter by volunteer birdwatchers and administered by the National Audubon Society.
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Cicada
The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs).
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Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses and rushes.
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Ecotone
An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes.
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Edward Harris (ornithologist)
Edward Harris (September 7, 1799 – June 8, 1863) was a farmer, horse breeder, philanthropist, naturalist, and ornithologist who accompanied John James Audubon on two of his expeditions to observe birds and mammals of America.
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Empetrum nigrum
Empetrum nigrum, crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the northern hemisphere.
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Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acid and infertile growing conditions.
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Flight feather
Flight feathers (Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges, singular remex, while those on the tail are called rectrices, singular rectrix.
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Fly
True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Great horned owl
The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl,Austing, G.R. & Holt, Jr., J.B. (1966).
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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Grey jay
The grey jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also gray jay, Canada jay, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Iva annua
Iva annua, the annual marsh elder or sumpweed, is a North American herbaceous annual plant in the sunflower family.
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Lapland longspur
The Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), also known as the Lapland bunting, is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches).
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Larix laricina
Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, Maryland; there is also an isolated population in central Alaska.
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Leafhopper
A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae.
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Least-concern species
A least concern (LC) species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated but not qualified for any other category.
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Lichen
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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Merlin (bird)
The Merlin (Falco columbarius) is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere, with numerous subspecies throughout North America and Eurasia.
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Moth
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.
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Northern shrike
The northern shrike (Lanius borealis) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae) native to North America and Siberia.
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Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.
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Nunavut
Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada.
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Passerellidae
The Passerellidae (New World sparrows or American sparrows) are a large family of seed-eating passerine birds with distinctively finch-like bills.
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Picea glauca
Picea glauca, the white spruce, is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in North America.
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Picea mariana
Picea mariana, the black spruce, is a North American species of spruce tree in the pine family.
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Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
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Rufous
Rufous is a colour that may be described as reddish-brown or brownish-red, as of rust or oxidised iron.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.
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Scirpus
Scirpus is a genus of aquatic, grass-like species in the family Cyperaceae (the sedges), many with the common names club-rush or bulrush (see also bulrush for other plant genera so-named).
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Sharp-shinned hawk
The sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) is a small hawk, with males being the smallest hawks in the United States and Canada, but with the species averaging larger than some Neotropical species, such as the tiny hawk.
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South Dakota
South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.
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Stoat
The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel or simply the weasel in Ireland where the least weasel does not occur, is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
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Taiga
Taiga (p; from Turkic), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches.
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Tail
The tail is the section at the rear end of an animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.
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Tarsus (skeleton)
The tarsus is a cluster of seven articulating bones in each foot situated between the lower end of tibia and fibula of the lower leg and the metatarsus.
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Temperate coniferous forest
Temperate coniferous forest is a terrestrial biome found in temperate regions of the world with warm summers and cool winters and adequate rainfall to sustain a forest.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.
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Vaccinium
Vaccinium is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family.
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Wildfire
A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.
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Willow
Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.
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Wing chord (biology)
Wing chord is an anatomical measurement of a bird's wing.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris's_sparrow
