"nose warmer. In response to the ancient quest of alchemy to turn lead into gold, Honeydew created a device that turned gold into cottage cheese. Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's moniker is derived from the traditional piece of lab equipment, the Bunsen burner, plus the fact that his head was shaped and colored like a honeydew melon. He was rumored to be modeled after Lew Grade, whose company ITC Entertainment produced ""The Muppet Show"". Henson responded in a Judy Harris interview: One of his most endearing features is his lack of visible eyes, despite the fact that he wears glasses. Occasionally, Honeydew"
"canopy with some scattered willows or elms. The shrub layer consisted of thick buttonbush, willow, or Ribes. The herb layer was often cattail, sedges, or blue joint grass, with occasional false nettle. Species found Three species were of near equal importance-the masked shrew, the white-footed mouse, and the meadow vole. The next most common are the northern short-tailed shrew, the raccoon, and the white-tailed deer. Other species include the eastern cottontail, the eastern chipmunk, the meadow vole, woodchuck, the prairie vole, the common muskrat, and the long-tailed weasel. The muskrat is a major species in the marshes, lakes, and ditches"
"the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017). Convolvulus cneorum Convolvulus cneorum, also known as silverbush or shrubby bindweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae, which contains many plants described as ""bindweed"". However, unlike other species in the genus, it is an evergreen shrub rather than a vine, forming a low mound in height, with a similar spread. It produces diameter flowers which are white with a yellow throat. These are produced at the end of stems in loose panicles and may almost completely cover the plants. The leaves are grey-green and are covered"
"Curassow Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds. Three of the four genera are restricted to tropical South America; a single species of ""Crax"" ranges north to Mexico. They form a distinct clade which is usually classified as the subfamily Cracinae. In line with the other 3 main lineages of cracids (chachalacas, true guans, and the horned guan), mt and nDNA sequence data indicates that the curassows diverged from their closest living relatives (probably the guans) at some time during the Oligocene, or c.35–20 mya (Pereira ""et al."" 2002). This data must be considered preliminary until"
"shrew. Razed Residential areas have sparse canopy of eastern cottonwood with some maple, elm, ash, and others. The shrub layer is thin but consist of eastern cottonwood, ash, and willow seedlings, wild and multiflora rose, Japanese honeysuckle, blackberry, grape, and red osier dogwood. The herb layer is fair to excellent cover of grasses, goldenrods, and asters. There is no well-developed mammal community. Species foundThe white-footed mouse was the most common mammal present. Other mammals include the raccoon, northern short-tailed shrew, eastern mole, meadow vole, woodchuck, eastern fox squirrel, striped skunk, and white-tailed deer. Rights-of-way include areas along roads, railroads, or"
"certain types of cottongrass characterise its appearance, particularly (Hare's-tail and Common Cottongrass); other typical species are the Common cranberry, Bog-rosemary, Cross-leaved heath and Common heather, various sedges, White beak-sedge (""Rhynchospora alba"") and the rare Rannoch-rush (""Scheuchzeria palustris""). On the periphery is a strip of carr which is dominated by Grey Willow and Alder Buckthorn bushes as well as Downy Birch. In places Bog-bean and Bog Arum may also be found in the undergrowth. The western part of this waterlogged terrain is more fen-like (""Niedermoor""), with reed beds and tall herbaceous vegetation as well as birch and alder trees. Information about"
"purple moor-grass, cross-leaved heath, degenerate heather, heath rush, compact rush, green-ribbed sedge and crowberry. A shallow valley draining into Redmoor Brook in the southeast area of the site has peat soils, which support rare wet heathland species. Species present include; bog mosses, common cotton grass, star sedge, round-leaved sundew, cranberry and bog asphodel. The fauna present on Gentleshaw Common is not as rich as its flora, however meadow pipit, common lizard and green hairstreak have been recorded. Gentleshaw Common Gentleshaw Common is an area of common land situated in Gentleshaw on the northern side of Burntwood in Staffordshire, England. The"
"Hornbeam Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the flowering plant genus ""Carpinus"" in the birch family Betulaceae. The 30–40 species occur across much of the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common English name ""hornbeam"" derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to ""horn"") and the Old English ""beam"" ""tree"" (cognate with German ""Baum""). The ""American hornbeam"" is also occasionally known as ""blue-beech"", ""ironwood"", or ""musclewood"", the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American beech ""Fagus grandifolia"", the other two from the hardness of the wood and the muscular appearance of the trunk, respectively."
"Convolvulus cneorum Convolvulus cneorum, also known as silverbush or shrubby bindweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae, which contains many plants described as ""bindweed"". However, unlike other species in the genus, it is an evergreen shrub rather than a vine, forming a low mound in height, with a similar spread. It produces diameter flowers which are white with a yellow throat. These are produced at the end of stems in loose panicles and may almost completely cover the plants. The leaves are grey-green and are covered in fine hairs which give the plant a silvery appearance."
"drier areas of heath have a grassy character, with typical species being matgrass (""Nardus stricta"") and wavy hair-grass (""Deschampsia flexuosa""). Common tormentil (""Potentilla erecta""), dovesfoot cranesbill (""Geranium molle""), heath bedstraw (""Galium saxatile""), heath milkwort (""Polygala serpyllifolia"") and heath rush (""Juncus squarrosus"") have also been recorded, as has the locally rare bird's-foot (""Ornithopus perpusillus"") and shepherd's cress (""Teesdalia nudicaulis""). During the late 20th century, the area of heathland has been substantially reduced by the encroachment of scrub, birch, alder and willow. The incursion of trees has caused the heath to become drier, resulting in the loss of some wet heath plants,"
"Honeysuckle Honeysuckles (""Lonicera"", ; syn. ""Caprifolium"" Mill.) are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. Approximately 180 species of honeysuckle have been identified. About 100 of these species can be found in China and approximately 20 native species have been identified in Europe, 20 in India, and 20 in North America. Widely known species include ""Lonicera periclymenum"" (common honeysuckle or woodbine), ""Lonicera japonica"" (Japanese honeysuckle, white honeysuckle, or Chinese honeysuckle) and ""Lonicera sempervirens"" (coral honeysuckle, trumpet honeysuckle, or woodbine honeysuckle). In North America hummingbirds are attracted to the flowers on some of these"
"than marshes used by most members of this family. The corn crake is a medium-sized rail, long with a wingspan of . Males weigh on average and females . The adult male has the crown of its head and all of its upperparts brown-black in colour, streaked with buff or grey. The wing coverts are a distinctive chestnut colour with some white bars. The face, neck and breast are blue-grey, apart from a pale brown streak from the base of the bill to behind the eye, the belly is white, and the flanks, and undertail are barred with chestnut and"
"a mile east of the village is the disused Strensall station on the York and Scarborough branch of the North Eastern railway. Strensall Common lies to the east of the village and forms part of the surrounding lowland heath. There are a number of different habitats, such as wet heath, dry heath and birch/oak woodland with areas of standing water. There are over 150 plant species including, marsh cinquefoil, marsh gentian, round-leaved sundew and petty whin. There are over 60 species of bird including curlew, whinchat, and both green and great spotted woodpecker. Amongst the numerous insects to be found"
"hyperoside), quinones (plumbagin, hydroplumbagin glucoside and rossoliside (7–methyl–hydrojuglone–4–glucoside)), and other constituents such as carotenoids, plant acids (e.g. butyric acid, citric acid, formic acid, gallic acid, malic acid, propionic acid), resin, tannins and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Much of the content of this article comes from (retrieved April 30, 2006). Drosera Drosera, commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of"
"have pink-purple stalks with dark purple anthers. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, but is cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. Several cultivars are available for garden use, of which 'Mrs Kendall Clark' and 'Plenum violaceum' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Meadow cranesbill is its most common name, although other names include 'meadow crane's-bill' and 'meadow geranium'. Geranium pratense Geranium pratense, the meadow crane's-bill or meadow geranium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Geraniaceae, native to Europe and Asia. Forming a clump roughly tall and broad, it is a herbaceous perennial"
"ranges from a harsh ""'hark-hark-hark-hark'"" to a more raven like ""'ah-ah-ah'"". Little crow (bird) The little crow (""Corvus bennetti"") is an Australian species of crow, very similar to the Torresian crow in having white bases to the neck and head feathers (shown when ruffled in strong wind) but slightly smaller (38–45 cm in length) and with a slightly smaller bill. It has the same white iris that distinguish the Australian species from all other ""Corvus"" except a few island species to the north of Australia, and one from Eurasia, the jackdaw (""Corvus monedula""). Like the Australian raven, this species has"
"are ruderal species and some have been found to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate. Conyza Conyza (horseweed, butterweed or fleabane) is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. They are native to tropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, and also north into cool temperate regions in North America and eastern Asia. The New World species of the genus are closely related to ""Erigeron"" (also known as fleabanes). The species are annual or perennial herbaceous plants, rarely shrubs, growing to 1–2 m tall. The stems are erect, branched, with alternate leaves. The flowers are produced in"
"be less prevalent in deep phylogenetic splits (i.e. between genera). Because of this, Pereira ""et al."" conclude incomplete lineage sorting is unlikely to account for the paraphyletic ""Pauxi"" genera because, according to their own analysis, ""Mitu"" and ""Pauxi"" diverged approximately 6.5mya. The horned curassow is among the largest cracid species. It measures in length. Body mass in large males is up to and only the great curassow is heavier amongst the cracids, although the black curassow and the closely related helmeted curassow are around the same length. Among standard measurements, the wing chord is , the tail is and the"
"Drosera Drosera, commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which the plants grow. Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, are native to every continent except Antarctica. Both the botanical name (from the Greek δρόσος: ""drosos"" = ""dew, dewdrops"") and the English common name (sundew, derived from Latin ""ros solis"", meaning ""dew of"
"up to 3,350 metres. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, green leaves and invertebrates. The female usually lays up to two eggs. The horned guan is not a true guan, but merely resembles these birds most in overall shape and color, whereas the horn is more reminiscent of the helmeted curassows. In fact, this species is the only survivor of a very ancient lineage of cracids that has been evolving independently from all other living members of this family for at least 20, possibly as much as 40 million years. Although it does not have any really close relatives among"
"moors. With regard to flora, some species-rich meadows remain, and the wood cranesbill (""Geranium sylvaticum"") and meadow cranesbill (""G. pratense"") are easy to spot in summer while the mountain pansy (""Viola lutea"") is a characteristic plant of the shorter grass round the upper dale. Around the upper dale also, in late Spring, damp places are bright with yellow marsh marigolds, of a variety (Caltha palustris minor) that is rather smaller than the ordinary marsh marigold (Caltha palustris). The tiny but beautiful spring sandwort (""Minuartia verna"") may be seen around old lead workings, enabled by its high tolerance of lead to"
"cracid birds, namely the relationships among the genera (Pereira ""et al."", 2002), the relationships between the species of curassows (Pereira & Baker, 2004) and between the piping- and wattled guans (Grau ""et al."", 2005). The traditional groups—chachalacas, guans, and curassows—are verified as distinct clades, but the horned guan represents the sole survivor of a very distinct and ancient lineage. In addition, the molecular data suggest that the Cracidae originated in the Late Cretaceous, but the authors caution that this cannot be more than a hypothesis at present: as the rate of molecular evolution is neither constant over time nor uniform"
"Crax Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America with one species, the great curassow, ranging northwards through Central America as far as Mexico. The curassows in this genus are noted for their sexual dimorphism; males are more boldly coloured than females and have facial ornamentation such as knobs and wattles. They are also characterised by curly crests and contrastingly-coloured crissums (the area around the cloaca). ""Crax"" curassows probably originated as a distinct lineage during the Late Miocene. During the Messinian, the ancestral Crax"
"Hooded crane The hooded crane (""Grus monacha"") is a small, dark crane. It has a grey body. The top of the neck and head is white, except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye. It is one of the smallest cranes, but is still a fairly large bird, at 1 m (3.3 ft) long, a weight of 3.7 kg (8.2 lbs) and a wingspan of 1.87 m (6.2 ft). The hooded crane breeds in south-central and south-eastern Siberia. Breeding is also suspected to occur in Mongolia. Over 80% of its population winters at Izumi, southern Japan. There"
"(Pereira & Baker 2004) Crax Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America with one species, the great curassow, ranging northwards through Central America as far as Mexico. The curassows in this genus are noted for their sexual dimorphism; males are more boldly coloured than females and have facial ornamentation such as knobs and wattles. They are also characterised by curly crests and contrastingly-coloured crissums (the area around the cloaca). ""Crax"" curassows probably originated as a distinct lineage during the Late Miocene. During the"
"Conyza Conyza (horseweed, butterweed or fleabane) is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. They are native to tropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, and also north into cool temperate regions in North America and eastern Asia. The New World species of the genus are closely related to ""Erigeron"" (also known as fleabanes). The species are annual or perennial herbaceous plants, rarely shrubs, growing to 1–2 m tall. The stems are erect, branched, with alternate leaves. The flowers are produced in inflorescences, with several inflorescences loosely clustered on each stem. Many species of the genus ""Conyza"""
"In addition reeds, marsh willowherb, marsh marigold and meadowsweet and, in dryer places also grey willow, eared willow and alder buckthorn, illustrate the variety that may be found in the marsh meadows alongside streams and brooks. The large mixed forests of the mountain range with their various plant communities form an ecological framework in which a large and varied range of animals was able to develop. Particularly striking are the larger mammals which, as in other mountainous regions, are represented by cloven-hoofed animals like the roe deer, red deer and wild boar. Fox, badger, polecat, weasel and threatened mammal species"
"Loose was recently surveyed and contained a mixture of the following species: water mint, meadowsweet, common reed mace, water dropwort, bittersweet, yellow iris, branched bur-reed, greater tussock sedge, brooklime, water figwort, water forget-me-not, great willowherb, and marsh marigold. Chrisbrook ponds host moorhens, coots and tufted duck, Canada geese visit in the mornings and egrets and kingfishers eat the fish. The quarries provide nesting tunnels for kingfishers. Winter time is a good time for birdwatching with kingfisher, little grebe, little egret, water rail, ring-necked parakeet, grey wagtail, mallard, moorhen, black headed gull, grey heron and jackdaw regularly seen. On the dry"
"is knapweed broomrape (""Orobanche elatior""), occurring in greater quantity on the plain than anywhere else in Britain. False-oat grass (""Arrhenatherum elatius"") grassland is also widespread, but is particularly a feature of the western ranges, often indicating areas of past cultivation. On anthills, and in the more disturbed turf that is especially a feature of the impact area, mouse-ear hawkweed (""Hieracium pilosella"") is abundant together with sheep's fescue (""Festuca ovina"") and wild thyme. Annuals are also characteristic of this habitat, including common whitlowgrass (""Erophila verna""), rue-leaved saxifrage (""Saxifraga tridactylites"",) hairy rock-cress (""Arabis hirsuta"") and the nationally scarce dwarf mouse-ear (""Cerastium pumilum"")"
"this kind in the United Kingdom. There is a range of habitats, including bare sand, Breckland heath and grasslands, fen, damp grassland and carr. Colonising species such as the rare grey hair-grass ""Corynephorus canescens"", which is found at only three inland sites in England, and the moss ""Polytrichum piliferum"" are found in areas at Wangford Warren. At least nine different lichen species are found on the heath as well as a number of grass and heather species and plants such as gorse and hawthorn. The fen and carr areas include species such as purple moor grass ""Molinia cerulean"", willow, alder"
"The hooded crow was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th-century work ""Systema Naturae"" and it bears its original name of ""Corvus cornix"". The binomial name is derived from the Latin words ""Corvus"", ""raven"", and ""cornix"", ""crow"". It was subsequently considered a subspecies of the carrion crow for many years, hence known as ""Corvus corone cornix"", due to similarities in structure and habits. It is locally known as a hoodie in Scotland and as a grey crow in Northern Ireland. Four subspecies of the hooded crow are now recognised; previously, all were considered subspecies of"
"minor""), self-heal (""Prunella vulgaris"") and pignut (""Conopodium majus""). Other species found include crested dog’s tail (""Cynosurus cristatus""), downy oat grass (""Avenula pubescens""), Yorkshire fog (""Holcus lanatus""), field woodrush (""Luzula campestris""), pale sedge (""Carex pallescens"") and red clover (""Trifolium pratense""). Damp areas within the meadows provide habitat for ragged robin (""Lychnis flos-cuculi""), great burnet (""Sanguisorba officinalis""), northern marsh orchid (""Dactylorhiza purpurella""), devil’s bit scabious (""Succisa pratensis""), marsh marigold (""Caltha palustris""), marsh ragwort (""Senecio jacobea"") and carnation-grass (""Carex panicea""). On a steep incline at the eastern edge of the site is found hawthorn (""Crataegus monogyna"") scrub and the common spotted orchid (""Dactylorhiza"
"hedge wattle, scrub she-oak, jagged fireweed, silver top wallaby grass, Australian salt grass and the blue tussock grass. Non-indigenous floral species include the sheep's burr, angled onion, lesser joyweed, broom spurge, common swamp wallaby grass, pointed centrolepis, common spikerush and small spikerush. Reptile species include the Bougainville's skink, grass skink, tree dragon, copperhead snake and tiger snake. Aquatic species include the striped marsh frog, water rat, platypus, bream, flathead, tupong, Australian salmon, leatherjacket, yelloweye mullet, silver trevally, black crab, spider crab, eel, bass yabbies, mussels and pippies. Bird species include the nankeen (rufous) night heron, white-faced heron, chestnut teal, straw-necked"