62 relations: American Ornithological Society, Australia, Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh), Australlus, Basal (phylogenetics), Bird migration, Black-tailed nativehen, Buka, Papua New Guinea, Chattian, Chronospecies, Climate change, Common gallinule, Common moorhen, Coot, Dingo, Dusky moorhen, Edgar Allan Poe, Egg, Emu (journal), Evolution, Extinction, Family (biology), Feather, Fiji, Flightless bird, Fossil, Genus, Gough moorhen, Last glacial period, Latin, Lesser moorhen, Makira woodhen, Mangaia, Marsupial, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, New Zealand, Omnivore, Parallel evolution, Passerine, Piacenzian, Pliocene, Predation, Queensland Museum, Rail (bird), Samoan woodhen, Siberia, Solomon Islands (archipelago), Southern Hemisphere, Species, Spot-flanked gallinule, ..., Storrs L. Olson, Subfossil, Subgenus, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, Swamphen, Tasmanian nativehen, The Gold-Bug, Tibiotarsus, Tribonyx, Tribonyx hodgenorum, Tristan moorhen, Villafranchian. Expand index (12 more) »
American Ornithological Society
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)
Riversleigh, in the north-west of Queensland, is Australia's most famous fossil site.
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Australlus
Australlus is an extinct genus of birds in the rail family.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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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-tailed nativehen
The black-tailed nativehen (Tribonyx ventralis) is a rail native to Australia.
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Buka, Papua New Guinea
Buka is located on the southern coast of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea (country).
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Chattian
The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.
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Chronospecies
A chronospecies is a species derived from a sequential development pattern which involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Common gallinule
The common gallinule (Gallinula galeata) is a bird in the family Rallidae.
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Common moorhen
The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (also known as the waterhen and as the swamp chicken) is a bird species in the family Rallidae.
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Coot
Coots are small water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae.
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Dingo
The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.
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Dusky moorhen
The dusky moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) is a bird species in the rail family and is one of the eight extant species in the moorhen genus.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Egg
An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.
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Emu (journal)
Emu, subtitled Austral Ornithology, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union).
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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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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Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.
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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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Flightless bird
Flightless birds are birds that through evolution lost the ability to fly.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Gough moorhen
The Gough moorhen (Gallinula comeri) is a medium-sized, almost flightless bird that is similar to the common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), but is smaller, stockier, and has shorter wings.
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Last glacial period
The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lesser moorhen
The lesser moorhen (Paragallinula angulata) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Makira woodhen
The Makira woodhen (Gallinula silvestris), also known as the Makira moorhen, is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Mangaia
Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga.
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Marsupial
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.
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Mathurin Jacques Brisson
Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Omnivore
Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.
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Parallel evolution
Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but from different clades.
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Passerine
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.
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Piacenzian
The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland, Australia.
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Rail (bird)
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds.
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Samoan woodhen
The Samoan woodhen (Gallinula pacifica), also known as Samoan wood rail, is a nearly flightless rail endemic to the Samoan island of Savai'i, and probably extinct.
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Siberia
Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.
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Solomon Islands (archipelago)
The Solomon Islands are an archipelago in the western South Pacific Ocean, located northeast of Australia.
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Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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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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Spot-flanked gallinule
The spot-flanked gallinule (Porphyriops melanops) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Storrs L. Olson
Storrs Lovejoy Olson (born April 3, 1944) is an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008.
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Subfossil
A subfossil (as opposed to a fossil) is a bone or other part of an organism that has not fully fossilized.
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Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
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Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
Sullivan's Island is a town and island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, with a population of 1,791 at the 2010 census.
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Swamphen
Porphyrio is the swamphen or swamp hen genus of birds in the rail family.
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Tasmanian nativehen
The Tasmanian nativehen (also Tasmanian native-hen or Tasmanian native hen) (Tribonyx mortierii) is a flightless rail and one of twelve species of birds endemic to the Australian island of Tasmania.
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The Gold-Bug
"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843.
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Tibiotarsus
The tibiotarsus is the large bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird.
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Tribonyx
Tribonyx is a small genus, containing two extant and one extinct species of birds in the rail family, that is sometimes lumped with the moorhens in Gallinula.
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Tribonyx hodgenorum
Hodgens' waterhen or Hodgen's rail (Tribonyx hodgenorum) is an extinct rail species from New Zealand.
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Tristan moorhen
The Tristan moorhen is a species of flightless rails.
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Villafranchian
Villafranchian age is a period of geologic time (3.5—1.0 Ma) overlapping the end of the Pliocene and the beginning of the Pleistocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorhen