"Red Shaver The Red Shaver is a sex linked breed of chicken developed in Canada. Pullets are reddish-brown in colour with white underfeathers, while males are white with a few red markings on the feathers. It is a hardy, dual-purpose breed laying brown eggs and dressing out between three and five pounds. They have a reputation of being a quiet breed. Red Shaver chickens are used most frequently in small flocks for small farms. Red shaver hens can lay from 305 to 315 eggs a year, and are reported to be prolific producers of large brown eggs. One four-year-old Red"
"Red shoveler The red shoveler (""Spatula platalea"") is a species of dabbling duck native to southern South America. The species has a spatula-shaped bill, a green speculum, and light blue upper wing converts. Male shovelers vary in color from red to paler shades of red (and pink), while the females tend to have large, dark bills. Adults reach a size of about , weigh about , and have a wingspan of about . The red shoveler breeds in the southern half of South America. It ranges from Tierra del Fuego northwards to Chile and most parts of Argentina, as well"
"Blacktailed red sheetweaver The black-tailed red sheetweaver, scientific name Florinda coccinea, is a species of web-building spider belonging to the family Linyphiidae. It is the only species in the genus Florinda. It is sometimes known as the red grass spider. Found in the United States, Mexico and the West Indies, this species is common in the southeastern United States], inhabiting grasslands, lawns, and agricultural fields. ""F. coccinea"" individuals are bright red in color, with a black caudal tubercle. Typical body length is 3–4 mm for adults, with females being slightly larger than males. Webs spun by ""F. coccinea"" consist of"
"Red-flanked bluetail The red-flanked bluetail (""Tarsiger cyanurus""), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, 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. It, and related species, are often called chats. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in mixed coniferous forest with undergrowth in northern Asia and northeastern Europe, from Finland east across Siberia to Kamchatka and south to Japan. It winters mainly in southeastern Asia, in the Indian Subcontinent, the Himalayas, Taiwan, and northern Indochina. The breeding range"
"Red-billed quelea The red-billed quelea (; ""Quelea quelea""), also known as the red-billed weaver or red-billed dioch, is a small—approximately long and weighing —migratory, sparrow-like bird of the weaver family, Ploceidae, native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It was named by Linnaeus in 1758, who considered it a bunting, but Ludwig Reichenbach assigned it in 1850 to the new genus ""Quelea"". Three subspecies are recognised, with ""Quelea quelea quelea"" occurring roughly from Senegal to Chad, ""Q. q. aethiopica"" from Sudan to Somalia and Tanzania, and ""Q. q. lathamii"" from Gabon to Mozambique and South Africa. Non-breeding birds have light underparts, striped brown"
"Red wattlebird The red wattlebird (""Anthochaera carunculata"") is a passerine bird native to southern Australia. At in length, it is the second largest species of Australian honeyeater. It has mainly grey-brown plumage, with red eyes, distinctive pinkish-red wattles on either side of the neck, white streaks on the chest and a large bright yellow patch on the lower belly. The sexes are similar in plumage. Juveniles have less prominent wattles and browner eyes. John White described the red wattlebird in 1790; three subspecies are recognized. The species is found in southeast Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and southwest"
"it is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. Red-breasted nuthatch The red-breasted nuthatch (""Sitta canadensis"") is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal. It breeds in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States. Though often a permanent resident, it regularly irrupts further south if its food supply fails. There are records of vagrants occurring"
"Red-tailed tropicbird The red-tailed tropicbird ""(Phaethon rubricauda)"" is a seabird native to tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. One of three closely related species of tropicbird, it was described by Pieter Boddaert in 1783. Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has almost all-white plumage with a black mask and a red bill. The sexes have similar plumage. Adults have red that are about twice their body length, which gives rise to its common name. There are four subspecies recognised, though there is evidence there is a clinal change with smaller birds in the north and larger in the south (and"
"misunderstanding of ""motacilla"", the name for the wagtail. Taiga flycatcher The taiga flycatcher or red-throated flycatcher (""Ficedula albicilla"") is a species of migratory bird in the family Muscicapidae. The female has brown upper parts with a blackish tail flanked by white. The breast are buffish with underparts mostly white. The male has ear coverts and sides of the neck blue-tinged grey with breeding males having orange-red coloration on the throats. Unlike taiga flycatcher, the female of the similar red-breasted flycatcher has brown tail while the red color in breeding males extend up to the breast in red-breasted flycatcher. It breeds"
"(""wings of red""). Its songs are described in Lakota as ""tōke, mat'ā nī"" (""oh! that I might die""), as ""nakun miyē"" (""...and me""), as ""miš eyā"" (""me too!""), and as ""cap'cehlī"" (""a beaver's running sore""). And its name in nahuatl the Aztec idiom is ""acolchichilli"" that literally means ""red shoulder"". Red-winged blackbird The red-winged blackbird (""Agelaius phoeniceus"") is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern"
"Common redshank The common redshank or simply redshank (""Tringa totanus"") is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. The genus name ""Tringa"" is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek ""trungas"", a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific ""totanus"" is from ""Tótano"", the Italian name for this bird. Common redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below. In winter plumage they become somewhat lighter-toned and less patterned, being rather plain greyish-brown above and whitish below. They have red legs and a"
"province in today's Sudan. ""Red-billed quelea"" has been designated the official name by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC). Other names in English include black-faced dioch, cardinal, common dioch, Latham's weaver-bird, pink-billed weaver, quelea finch, quelea weaver, red-billed dioch, red-billed weaver, Russ' weaver, South-African dioch, Sudan dioch and Uganda dioch. Based on recent DNA analysis, the red-billed quelea is the sister group of a clade that contains both other remaining species of the genus ""Quelea"", namely the cardinal quelea (""Q. cardinalis"") and the red-headed quelea (""Q. erythrops""). The genus belongs to the group of true weavers (subfamily Ploceinae), and is most"
"thus not considered a threatened species by the IUCN. Common redshank The common redshank or simply redshank (""Tringa totanus"") is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. The genus name ""Tringa"" is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek ""trungas"", a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific ""totanus"" is from ""Tótano"", the Italian name for this bird. Common redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below. In winter plumage they become somewhat lighter-toned and less patterned, being rather plain greyish-brown above"
"impacted the population of the thrasher. The Cozumel thrasher was first described as ""Harporhynchus guttatus"" by Robert Ridgway in 1885. It has been described as a subspecies to its relative the long-billed thrasher, but was considered a separate species when it was determined in a 1998 study that it differed genetically more than five percent from both the long-billed and brown thrasher. In the same study it was determined to be the basal member of the ""rufum"" group of ""Toxostoma"" thrashers. The bird is monotypic. The thrasher is 21.5 to 24 cm in length. The adult has a brown crown,"
"Red-eared slider The red-eared slider (""Trachemys scripta elegans""), also known as the red-eared terrapin, is a semiaquatic turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. It is a subspecies of the pond slider. It is the most popular pet turtle in the United States and is also popular as a pet in the rest of the world. It has, therefore, become the most commonly traded turtle in the world. It is native to the southern United States and northern Mexico, but has become established in other places because of pet releases, and has become an invasive species in many areas, where it"
"Red-billed chough The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough ( ; ""Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax""), is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus ""Pyrrhocorax"". Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China. This bird has glossy black plumage, a long curved red bill, red legs, and a loud, ringing call. It has a buoyant acrobatic flight with widely spread primaries. The red-billed chough pairs for life and displays fidelity to its breeding"
"Red-billed scythebill The red-billed scythebill (""Campylorhamphus trochilirostris"") is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. The red-billed scythebill is a fairly large species of woodcreeper. The total length of the species is 24–28 cm (9.5–11 in). As its name indicates, the bill is long, downcurved and reddish in coloration. The back is red-brown and the belly is lighter cinnamon-brown shade. The throat and head are covered in brown and white streaks. This species picks insects and other invertebrates out of the trunks of trees and branches of trees. The red-billed scythebill is often a solitary bird when not mating"
"in the ornithological literature. The table below details the treatments adopted by some major works, by publication date (newest first): Red-flanked bluetail The red-flanked bluetail (""Tarsiger cyanurus""), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, 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. It, and related species, are often called chats. It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in mixed coniferous forest with undergrowth in northern Asia and northeastern Europe, from Finland east across Siberia to Kamchatka and south to"
"Cozumel thrasher The Cozumel thrasher (""Toxostoma guttatum"") is a bird from the mockingbird family (Mimidae), which is endemic to the island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. It is believed to be the most critically endangered species of bird in Mexico - if it indeed still exists, which is probable but not certain. This bird is closely related to the long-billed and brown thrasher. It has been generally described as shy, but there have been descriptions to the contrary. It was once abundant throughout Cozumel before two hurricanes greatly affected its numbers. Invasive species are also thought to have"
"Red-billed streamertail The red-billed streamertail (""Trochilus polytmus""), also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is indigenous to Jamaica, where it is the most abundant and widespread member of the hummingbird family. While most authorities now consider it a separate species, some (including the American Ornithologists' Union) continue to consider it conspecific with the black-billed streamertail. The red-billed streamertail is the national bird of Jamaica. When the black-billed streamertail of eastern Jamaica (found mostly in the parish of Portland) is considered a separate species, the red-billed streamertail occurs west of a line from Morant Bay following the"
"studies have shown that the red-breasted nuthatch, the Corsican nuthatch and the Chinese nuthatch make up one clade and the Algerian nuthatch and Krüper's nuthatch make up a sister clade. The red-breasted nuthatch is monotypic across its extensive range. The red-breasted nuthatch is a small passerine, measuring in length, with a wingspan of and a weight of . Its back and uppertail are bluish, and its underparts rust-colored. It has a black cap and eye line and a white supercilium (eyebrow). Sexes are similarly plumaged, though females and youngsters have duller heads and paler underparts. The red-breasted nuthatch's call is"
"pale brown, the wings dark brown, and the tail black with outer feathers tipped with white. The underparts are white. The bill has a dark brown upper mandible and pinkish-brown lower mandible. Red-billed streamertail The red-billed streamertail (""Trochilus polytmus""), also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is indigenous to Jamaica, where it is the most abundant and widespread member of the hummingbird family. While most authorities now consider it a separate species, some (including the American Ornithologists' Union) continue to consider it conspecific with the black-billed streamertail. The red-billed streamertail is the national bird of Jamaica."
"Six subspecies are recognised. Scarlet-chested sunbird The scarlet-chested sunbird (""Chalcomitra senegalensis"") is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the scarlet-chested sunbird in his ""Ornithologie"" based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name"
"but the red-chested swallow—a resident of West Africa, the Congo basin, and Ethiopia—was formerly treated as a subspecies of barn swallow. The red-chested swallow is slightly smaller than its migratory relative, has a narrower blue breast-band, and (in the adult) has shorter tail streamers. In flight, it looks paler underneath than barn swallow. Six subspecies of barn swallow are generally recognised. In eastern Asia, a number of additional or alternative forms have been proposed, including ""saturata"" by Robert Ridgway in 1883, ""kamtschatica"" by Benedykt Dybowski in 1883, ""ambigua"" by Erwin Stresemann and ""mandschurica"" by Wilhelm Meise in 1934. Given the"
"Red-breasted nuthatch The red-breasted nuthatch (""Sitta canadensis"") is a small songbird. The adult has blue-grey upperparts with cinnamon underparts, a white throat and face with a black stripe through the eyes, a straight grey bill and a black crown. Its call, which has been likened to a tin trumpet, is high-pitched and nasal. It breeds in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States. Though often a permanent resident, it regularly irrupts further south if its food supply fails. There are records of vagrants occurring as far south as the Gulf Coast and northern Mexico. It"
"for German zoologist Carl-Wilhelm Hahn, who in 1834 began compiling ""Ornithologischer Atlas oder naturgetreue Abbildung und Beschreibung der aussereuropäischen Vögel"" (Engl: Ornithological Atlas or natural depiction and description of birds from outside Europe). Red-shouldered macaws are frequently bred in captivity for the pet trade, where they are sometimes described as mini-macaws. Though wild populations of red-shouldered macaws have declined locally due to habitat loss, they are listed as Least Concern by IUCN. They are listed on Appendix II of CITES, trade restricted. The red-shouldered macaw (""Diopsittaca nobilis"", Linnaeus, 1758) is a member of the monotypic genus ""Diopsittaca"" (Ridgway 1912), one"
"males take up to three years to grow their full length plumage. Pavonine quetzal The pavonine quetzal (""Pharomachrus pavoninus"") is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae, the trogons. It is also known at the peacock trogon, red-billed train bearer, or ""viuda pico rojo"" in Spanish. The pavonine quetzal lives in the Neotropics, more specifically in the northern region of the Amazon basin, spreading from Colombia to Bolivia. The most notable characteristics helpful in identifying this bird are its plumage, red beak (male; females have grey bills), and its distribution - it is the only quetzal occupying the lowland"
"the genus name, is Vieillot's attempt at Latin for ""silktail"", translating the German name ""Seidenschwänze"".) They have unique red tips to some of the wing feathers where the shafts extend beyond the barbs; in the Bohemian and cedar waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax, and give the group its common name. The legs are short and strong, and the wings are pointed. The male and female have the same plumage. All three species have mainly brown plumage, a black line through the eye and black under the chin, a square-ended tail with a red or yellow tip, and a"
"Red-bellied paradise flycatcher The red-bellied paradise flycatcher (""Terpsiphone rufiventer""), also known as the black-headed paradise flycatcher, is a medium-sized passerine bird of the family of monarch flycatchers. It is native to Equatorial Africa. The male bird is about long and has a black head, a mainly chestnut body, and a tail with streamers nearly twice as long as the body. The colouring is somewhat variable across the bird's range. Both females and juveniles lack the tail streamers and are a duller brown colour. It is closely related to the African paradise flycatcher, and the two can hybridise. The name ""red-bellied"
"Red-shouldered macaw The red-shouldered macaw (""Diopsittaca nobilis"") is a small green South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws. The species is named for the red coverts on its wings. It is the smallest macaw, being in length. It is native to the tropical lowlands, savannah, and swamplands of Venezuela, the Guianas, Bolivia, Brazil, and far south-eastern Peru. It has two distinct subspecies, the noble macaw and the Hahn's macaw, and a possible poorly distinct third subspecies that has longer wings, but is otherwise similar to the noble macaw. The Hahn's subspecies is named"
"Scarlet skimmer The scarlet skimmer or ruddy marsh skimmer, ""Crocothemis servilia"", is a species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to east and southeast Asia and introduced to Jamaica, Florida, and Hawaii. There are two known subspecies; ""Crocothemis servilia servilia"" Drury, 1773 and ""Crocothemis servilia mariannae"" Kiauta, 1983. ""C. s. mariannae"" lacks the mid-dorsal black stripe. It is a medium sized blood-red dragonfly with a thin black line along the mid-dorsal abdomen. Its eyes are blood-red above, purple laterally. Thorax is bright ferruginous, often blood-red on dorsum. Abdomen is blood-red, with a narrow black mid-dorsal carina. Anal appendages are"
"redshank was described by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1764 and given the binomial name ""Scolopax erythropus"". It is a monotypic species, with no recognised subspecies. Taxonomically, it forms a close-knit group with several other large ""Tringa"" species, with molecular sequencing showing it to be a sister clade to that containing the greater yellowlegs and the common greenshank. This is a large wader (shorebird), measuring long, with a wingspan of and a weight ranging from . It is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter. It has a red legs and bill, and shows a white oval"
"blood-red. Female is similar to the male; but with olivaceous-brown thorax and abdomen. The black mid-dorsal carina is rather broad. It breeds in ponds, ditches, marshes, open swamps and rice fields. Scarlet skimmer The scarlet skimmer or ruddy marsh skimmer, ""Crocothemis servilia"", is a species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to east and southeast Asia and introduced to Jamaica, Florida, and Hawaii. There are two known subspecies; ""Crocothemis servilia servilia"" Drury, 1773 and ""Crocothemis servilia mariannae"" Kiauta, 1983. ""C. s. mariannae"" lacks the mid-dorsal black stripe. It is a medium sized blood-red dragonfly with a thin black line"