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63 relations: Acadian flycatcher, Alfred A. Knopf, American black swift, Ashy drongo, Asian brown flycatcher, Australasia, Barn swallow, Beak, Bee-eater, Bird, Bird colony, Bird flight, Bird migration, Black tern, Brown hawk-owl, Cedar waxwing, Chimney swift, Common nighthawk, Common poorwill, Convergent evolution, Cooper Ornithological Society, Drag (physics), Drongo, Endemism, Energy budget, European pied flycatcher, Family (biology), Fiji, Gleaning (birds), Great Britain, Great dusky swift, HarperCollins, Honeyeater, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Infobase Publishing, Insect, Kingbird, Lewis's woodpecker, Lift (force), Marsh tern, Mixed-species foraging flock, Monarch flycatcher, National Audubon Society, Nightjar, Old World flycatcher, Olive-sided flycatcher, Owl, Petrochelidon, Princeton University Press, Raptor Research Foundation, ..., Slaty monarch, Small niltava, Songbird, Species, Spotted flycatcher, Swallow, Swift, Territory (animal), Thrust, Tyrant flycatcher, University of California Press, W. H. Freeman and Company, Western screech owl. Expand index (13 more) »
Acadian flycatcher
The Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens) is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.
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American black swift
The American black swift, or more simply black swift (Cypseloides niger), is a name given to birds that are found from northern British Columbia in Canada through the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica and Brazil.
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Ashy drongo
The ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) is a species of bird in the drongo family Dicruridae.
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Asian brown flycatcher
The Asian brown flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
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Australasia
Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia).
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Barn swallow
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world.
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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-eater
The bee-eaters are a group of near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae containing three genera and 27 species.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird colony
A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
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Bird flight
Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species.
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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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Black tern
The black tern (Chlidonias niger) is a small tern generally found in or near inland water in Europe and North America.
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Brown hawk-owl
The brown hawk-owl (Ninox scutulata), also known as the brown boobook, is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal east to western Indonesia and south China.
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Cedar waxwing
The cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds.
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Chimney swift
The chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) is a bird belonging to the swift family Apodidae.
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Common nighthawk
The common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) is a medium-sized crepuscular or nocturnal bird within the nightjar family, whose presence and identity are best revealed by its vocalization.
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Common poorwill
The common poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) is a nocturnal bird of the family Caprimulgidae, the nightjars.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Cooper Ornithological Society
The Cooper Ornithological Society (COS), formerly the Cooper Ornithological Club, was an American ornithological society.
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Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance, a type of friction, or fluid resistance, another type of friction or fluid friction) is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
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Drongo
The drongos are a family, Dicruridae, of passerine birds of the Old World tropics.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Energy budget
An energy budget is a balance sheet of energy income against expenditure.
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European pied flycatcher
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
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Gleaning (birds)
Gleaning is a feeding strategy by birds in which they catch invertebrate prey, mainly arthropods, by plucking them from foliage or the ground, from crevices such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses, or even, as in the case of ticks and lice, from living animals.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Great dusky swift
The great dusky swift (Cypseloides senex) is a South American species of swift in the family Apodidae.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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Honeyeater
The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.
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Infobase Publishing
Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Kingbird
Tyrannus is a genus of small passerine birds of the tyrant flycatcher family.
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Lewis's woodpecker
The Lewis's woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis, one of the explorers who surveyed the areas bought by the United States of America as part of the Louisiana Purchase and discovered this species of bird.
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Lift (force)
A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts a force on it.
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Marsh tern
The name marsh tern refers to terns of the genus Chlidonias, which are typically found in freshwater marshes, rather than coastal locations.
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Mixed-species foraging flock
A mixed-species feeding flock, also termed a mixed-species foraging flock, mixed hunting party or informally bird wave, is a flock of usually insectivorous birds of different species that join each other and move together while foraging.
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Monarch flycatcher
The monarchs (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks.
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National Audubon Society
The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation.
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Nightjar
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae, characterized by long wings, short legs and very short bills.
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Old World flycatcher
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds mostly restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia).
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Olive-sided flycatcher
The olive-sided flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) is a passerine bird.
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Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
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Petrochelidon
Petrochelidon is a genus of birds known as cliff-nesting swallows.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Raptor Research Foundation
The Raptor Research Foundation (RRF) is a United States based ornithological society, focusing on the behavior, ecology, and conservation of birds of prey.
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Slaty monarch
The slaty monarch (Mayrornis lessoni) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae endemic to Fiji.
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Small niltava
The small niltava (Niltava macgrigoriae) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
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Songbird
A songbird is a bird belonging to the clade Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes).
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spotted flycatcher
The spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.
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Swallow
The swallows and martins, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents except Antarctica.
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Swift
The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.
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Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against conspecifics (or, occasionally, animals of other species).
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Thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.
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Tyrant flycatcher
The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America.
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University of California Press
University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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W. H. Freeman and Company
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Western screech owl
The western screech owl (Megascops kennicottii) is a small owl native to North and Central America, closely related to the European scops owl and the Description Length averages, wingspan, and weight.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_(birds)
