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186 relations: A History of British Birds, Aerodynamics, Afghanistan, Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, Alaska, Albatross, Altitudinal migration, Ambelopoulia, Anatidae, Ancient Greece, Andes, Animal migration, Animal migration tracking, Animal navigation, Antarctic, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Arctic tern, Aristotle, Atlantic Ocean, Auk, Australia, Avian influenza, Baltic Sea, Bar-headed goose, Bar-tailed godwit, Barn swallow, Batumi, Bay of Fundy, Biological pigment, Bird, Bird migration perils, Bird of prey, Bird ringing, Bird strike, Black guillemot, Black-tailed godwit, Bohemian waxwing, Book of Jeremiah, Book of Job, Bosporus, Brant (goose), Breeding in the wild, Buzzard, Canada goose, Caribbean Sea, Central America, Central Asia, CIDNP, Climate change, ..., Clutch (eggs), Common chaffinch, Common chiffchaff, Crane (bird), Cyanistes, Dark-eyed junco, Delaware River, Diurnality, Drift migration, Dunlin, Dusky grouse, Eagle, East Asian–Australasian Flyway, Electromagnetism, Eleonora's falcon, Elliott Coues, Emu, Endogeny (biology), England, Eurasian blackcap, Eurasian skylark, European honey buzzard, European pied flycatcher, European turtle dove, Falkland Islands, Falsterbo, Farne Islands, Finch, Florida, Flyway, Garganey, George Lowery, Gibraltar, Gilbert White, GPS satellite blocks, Great Britain, Greater noctule bat, Gull, Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen, Herodotus, Hesiod, Himalayas, Homer, Hunting, Iceland, India, Isoscapes, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Johann Natterer, Journal of Avian Biology, Keoladeo National Park, Khumbu Glacier, Latitude, Magnetic field, Magnetite, Magnetoreception, Mallorca, Manx shearwater, Mecklenburg, Mediterranean Sea, Melbourne, Menorca, Merlin (bird), Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, Mount Everest, National Institute of Polar Research (Japan), Natural History (Pliny), New Zealand, Nile, North America, Northern Hemisphere, Northern pintail, Northern wheatear, Norway, Olfactory navigation, Parasitism, Parus, Passenger pigeon, Passerine, Penguin, Pfeilstorch, Pink-footed goose, Pliny the Elder, Point Pelee National Park, Polygyny, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Procellariiformes, Radar, Red crossbill, Reverse migration (birds), Scandinavia, Scout (Scouting), Scythia, Seabird, Semipalmated sandpiper, Sempach Bird Observatory, Sexual dimorphism, Siberian crane, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Sooty shearwater, South America, Southern United States, Spurn, Stork, Strait of Messina, Sub-Saharan Africa, Subarctic climate, Swainson's thrush, Swallow, Swift, Taymyr Peninsula, Temperate climate, Tern, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Thermal, Thomas Bewick, Trigeminal nerve, Tundra, Ultralight aviation, Vulture, Wadden Sea, Wader, Wallcreeper, Water bird, Waxwing, West Nile virus, Western Oregon, Western sandpiper, White Sea, White stork, White-throated dipper, Whooping crane, Winged Migration, Winter, Yellow-billed cuckoo, Zugunruhe. Expand index (136 more) »
A History of British Birds
A History of British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes.
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Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics, from Greek ἀήρ aer (air) + δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly its interaction with a solid object, such as an airplane wing.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.
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Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, or African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) is an independent international treaty developed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on Migratory Species.
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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
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Altitudinal migration
Altitudinal migration is a short-distance animal migration from lower altitudes to higher altitudes and back.
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Ambelopoulia
Ambelopoulia is a controversial dish of grilled, fried, pickled or boiled songbirds which is a traditional dish enjoyed by native Cypriots and served in some Cypriot restaurants.
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Anatidae
The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
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Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.
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Animal migration
Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.
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Animal migration tracking
For years scientists have been tracking animals and the ways they migrate.
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Animal navigation
Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments.
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Antarctic
The Antarctic (US English, UK English or and or) is a polar region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.
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Arctic tern
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Auk
An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
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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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Avian influenza
Avian influenza—known informally as avian flu or bird flu is a variety of influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.
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Bar-headed goose
The bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) is a goose that breeds in Central Asia in colonies of thousands near mountain lakes and winters in South Asia, as far south as peninsular India.
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Bar-tailed godwit
The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae.
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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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Batumi
Batumi (ბათუმი) is the second-largest city of Georgia, located on the coast of the Black Sea in the country's southwest.
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Bay of Fundy
The Bay of Fundy (or Fundy Bay; Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine.
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Biological pigment
Biological pigments, also known simply as pigments or biochromes, are substances produced by living organisms that have a color resulting from selective color absorption.
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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 migration perils
Migrating birds face many perils as they travel between breeding and wintering grounds each year.
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Bird of prey
A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.
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Bird ringing
Bird ringing or bird banding is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.
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Bird strike
A bird strike—sometimes called birdstrike, bird ingestion (for an engine), bird hit, or bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH)—is a collision between an airborne animal (usually a bird or bat) and a manmade vehicle, especially an aircraft.
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Black guillemot
The black guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized alcid.
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Black-tailed godwit
The black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
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Bohemian waxwing
The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a starling-sized passerine bird that breeds in the northern forests of Eurasia and North America.
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Book of Jeremiah
The Book of Jeremiah (ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ; abbreviated Jer. or Jerm. in citations) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.
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Book of Job
The Book of Job (Hebrew: אִיוֹב Iyov) is a book in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Bosporus
The Bosporus or Bosphorus;The spelling Bosporus is listed first or exclusively in all major British and American dictionaries (e.g.,,, Merriam-Webster,, and Random House) as well as the Encyclopædia Britannica and the.
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Brant (goose)
The brant, also known as the brent goose (Branta bernicla) is a species of goose of the genus Branta.
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Breeding in the wild
Breeding in the wild is the natural process of animal reproduction occurring in the natural habitat of a given species.
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Buzzard
Buzzard is the common name of several species of bird of prey.
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Canada goose
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), also called the Canadian goose, is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Central America
Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.
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Central Asia
Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.
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CIDNP
Discovered in 1967 by Bargon et al.; Ward and Lowler, CIDNP (chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization), often pronounced like "kidnip", is an NMR technique that is used to study chemical reactions that involve radicals.
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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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Clutch (eggs)
A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.
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Common chaffinch
The common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), usually known simply as the chaffinch, is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family.
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Common chiffchaff
The common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
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Crane (bird)
Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes.
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Cyanistes
Cyanistes is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae.
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Dark-eyed junco
The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) is a species of the juncos, a genus of small grayish American sparrows.
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Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.
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Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of sleeping, or other inactivity, at night.
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Drift migration
Drift migration is the phenomenon in which migrating birds are blown off course by the winds while they are in flight.
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Dunlin
The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia.
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Dusky grouse
The dusky grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to the Rocky Mountains in North America.
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Eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.
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East Asian–Australasian Flyway
The East Asian–Australasian Flyway is one of the world's great flyways.
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Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles.
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Eleonora's falcon
Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon.
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Elliott Coues
Elliott Coues (September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.
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Emu
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.
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Endogeny (biology)
Endogenous substances and processes are those that originate from within an organism, tissue, or cell.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eurasian blackcap
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler.
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Eurasian skylark
The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small passerine bird species.
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European honey buzzard
The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus), also known as the pern or common pern, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.
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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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European turtle dove
The European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) is a member of the bird family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons.
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Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
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Falsterbo
Falsterbo is a town located at the south-western tip of Sweden in Vellinge Municipality in Skåne.
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Farne Islands
The Farne Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Northumberland, England.
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Finch
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Flyway
A flyway is a flight path used in bird migration.
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Garganey
The garganey (Spatula querquedula) is a small dabbling duck.
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George Lowery
George Hines Lowery Jr. (October 2, 1913 - January 19, 1978) was an American ornithologist and professor of zoology at Louisiana State University who pioneered a technique for studying nocturnal bird migration by large-scale observation through telescopes across the United States of America of flocks of birds as they flew at night in front of the face of the moon.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Gilbert White
Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist.
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GPS satellite blocks
A GPS satellite is a satellite used by the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS).
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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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Greater noctule bat
The greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) is a rare bat found in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen
Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen (27 August 1856 – 7 June 1921) was a Danish teacher and ornithologist.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος, Hêródotos) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (484– 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides.
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Hesiod
Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Isoscapes
Isoscapes are spatially explicit predictions of elemental isotope ratios (δ) that are produced by executing process-level models of elemental isotope fractionation or distribution in a Geographic Information System (GIS).
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Johann Friedrich Naumann
Johann Friedrich Naumann (14 February 1780 – 15 August 1857) was a German scientist, engraver, and editor.
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Johann Natterer
Johann Natterer (9 November 1787 – 17 June 1843) was an Austrian naturalist and explorer.
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Journal of Avian Biology
The Journal of Avian Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of ornithology published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos.
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Keoladeo National Park
Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India is a famous avifauna sanctuary that hosts thousands of birds, especially during the winter season.
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Khumbu Glacier
The Khumbu Glacier is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal between Mount Everest and the Lhotse-Nuptse ridge.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Magnetic field
A magnetic field is a vector field that describes the magnetic influence of electrical currents and magnetized materials.
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Magnetite
Magnetite is a rock mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula Fe3O4.
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Magnetoreception
Magnetoreception (also magnetoception) is a sense which allows an organism to detect a magnetic field to perceive direction, altitude or location.
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Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean.
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Manx shearwater
The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
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Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg (locally, Low German: Mękel(n)borg) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Menorca
Menorca or Minorca (Menorca; Menorca; from Latin: Insula Minor, later Minorica "smaller island") is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain.
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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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Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA), codified at (although §709 is omitted), is a United States federal law, first enacted in 1916 to implement the convention for the protection of migratory birds between the United States and Great Britain (acting on behalf of Canada).
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
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National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
is the Japanese research institute for Antarctica.
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Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a book about the whole of the natural world in Latin by Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and naval commander who died in 79 AD.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nile
The Nile River (النيل, Egyptian Arabic en-Nīl, Standard Arabic an-Nīl; ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Jtrw; Biblical Hebrew:, Ha-Ye'or or, Ha-Shiḥor) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is commonly regarded as the longest river in the world, though some sources cite the Amazon River as the longest.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Northern pintail
The pintail or northern pintail (Anas acuta) is a duck with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America.
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Northern wheatear
The northern wheatear or wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Olfactory navigation
Olfactory navigation is a hypothesis put forward to explain navigation and homing of pigeons, in particular the homing pigeon.
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Parasitism
In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
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Parus
Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family.
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Passenger pigeon
The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America.
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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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Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.
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Pfeilstorch
The term Pfeilstorch (German for "arrow stork") is given to storks injured by an arrow while wintering in Africa, before returning to Europe with the arrow stuck in their bodies.
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Pink-footed goose
The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard.
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Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.
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Point Pelee National Park
Point Pelee National Park (French: Parc national de la Pointe-Pelée) is a national park in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada where it extends into Lake Erie.
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Polygyny
Polygyny (from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία from πολύ- poly- "many", and γυνή gyne "woman" or "wife") is the most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a man with several women.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society
Proceedings of the Royal Society is the parent title of two scientific journals published by the Royal Society.
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Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, and 2 families of storm petrels.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Red crossbill
The red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, also known as the common crossbill in Eurasia.
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Reverse migration (birds)
Reverse migration is a phenomenon in bird migration.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
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Scout (Scouting)
A Scout (in some countries a Boy Scout, Girl Scout or Pathfinder) is a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement.
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Scythia
Scythia (Ancient Greek: Σκυθική, Skythikē) was a region of Central Eurasia in classical antiquity, occupied by the Eastern Iranian Scythians, encompassing Central Asia and parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River, with the eastern edges of the region vaguely defined by the Greeks.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Semipalmated sandpiper
The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird.
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Sempach Bird Observatory
The Swiss Ornithological Institute (Schweizerische Vogelwarte Sempach in German) is an ornithological research centre, which is based at the town of Sempach in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Siberian crane
The Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.
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Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of bird migration.
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Sooty shearwater
The sooty shearwater (Ardenna grisea) is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Spurn
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary.
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Stork
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.
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Strait of Messina
The Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina), is a narrow strait between the eastern tip of Sicily (Punta del Faro) and the western tip of Calabria (Punta Pezzo) in the south of Italy.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.
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Subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, subalpine climate, or boreal climate) is a climate characterised by long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers.
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Swainson's thrush
Swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatus), also called olive-backed thrush, is a medium-sized thrush.
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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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Taymyr Peninsula
The Taymyr Peninsula (italic) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands.
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a book by English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White.
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Thermal
A thermal column (or thermal) is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere, a form of atmospheric updraft.
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Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English engraver and natural history author.
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Trigeminal nerve
The trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve, or simply CN V) is a nerve responsible for sensation in the face and motor functions such as biting and chewing; it is the largest of the cranial nerves.
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Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.
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Ultralight aviation
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft.
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Vulture
A vulture is a scavenging bird of prey.
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Wadden Sea
The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee, Wattenmeer, Wattensee or Waddenzee, Vadehavet, longname, di Heef) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea.
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Wader
Waders are birds commonly found along shorelines and mudflats that wade in order to forage for food (such as insects or crustaceans) in the mud or sand.
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Wallcreeper
The wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small passerine bird found throughout the high mountains of Eurasia from southern Europe to central China.
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Water bird
The term water bird, waterbird or aquatic bird (not to be confused with wading birds) is used to refer to birds that live on or around water.
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Waxwing
The waxwings are passerine birds classified in the genus Bombycilla.
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West Nile virus
West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever.
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Western Oregon
Western Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to mean the part of Oregon within of the Oregon Coast, on the west side of the crest of the Cascade Range.
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Western sandpiper
The western sandpiper (Calidris mauri) is a small shorebird.
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White Sea
The White Sea (Белое море, Béloye móre; Karelian and Vienanmeri, lit. Dvina Sea; Сэрако ямʼ, Serako yam) is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia.
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White stork
The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.
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White-throated dipper
The white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus), also known as the European dipper or just dipper, is an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.
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Whooping crane
The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest North American bird, is an endangered crane species named for its whooping sound.
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Winged Migration
Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur, also known as The Travelling Birds in some UK releases, or The Travelling Birds: An Adventure in Flight in Australia) is a 2001 documentary film directed by Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin, who was also one of the writers and narrators, showcasing the immense journeys routinely made by birds during their migrations.
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Winter
Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate zones (winter does not occur in the tropical zone).
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Yellow-billed cuckoo
The yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is a cuckoo.
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Zugunruhe
Zugunruhe (pronounced) is a German compound word consisting of Zug (move, migration) and Unruhe (anxiety, restlessness).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_migration
