By what other name is the bird the apteryx known?
"Island brown kiwi. However using genetic codes from each of the above it was determined that the tokoeka was a separate species, it took the ""Apteryx australis"" name, leaving the brown kiwi with its current ""Apteryx mantelli"" name. Soon after, in 1998, more genetic tests were done with the rowi and it was determined that it (the rowi) was a separate species (""Apteryx rowi""). In 2004 an injured bird was found with streaked white around the head and identified by Massey University. The white feathering is likely due to a rarely seen genetic variation sometimes described as a partial albino."
"by the Austrian naturalist Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld for the Hoefnagel painting, with the older specific name ""broecki"". Due to nomenclatural priority, the genus name was later combined with the oldest species name ""bonasia"", which was coined by the Belgian scientist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1848. Sélys Longchamps had originally named the genus ""Apterornis"", wherein he also included the Réunion solitaire and the Réunion swamphen, but the name was preoccupied by ""Aptornis"", a bird described by the English biologist Richard Owen in 1844. ""Aphanapteryx"" means ""invisible-wing"", but the meaning of ""bonasia"" is unclear. Some early accounts refer to red"
"""pteryx"" (πτέρυξ), ""wing"", ""feather"" or ""pinion"". The specific name ""chaoyangensis"" is from the Latin for ""from Chaoyang"". Excluding the tail, ""Longipteryx"" was some 15 cm long overall in life. It had a long bill — longer than the rest of the head — with a few hooked teeth at the tip, and, as the name implies, proportionally long and strong wings. Although it was primitive insofar as that it had two long separate fingers with claws and a stubby thumb, the flight apparatus was generally quite well developed, and unlike most other birds of its time it possessed uncinate processes"
"also included two other Mascarene birds at the time only known from contemporary accounts in the genus ""Apterornis"", the red rail (now ""Aphanapteryx bonasia"") and the Réunion solitaire (now ""Threskiornis solitarius""). As the name ""Apterornis"" had already been used for a different bird by the English biologist Richard Owen, the French biologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte coined the new binomial ""Cyanornis erythrorhynchus"" in 1857. The German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel moved the species to the swamphen genus instead, as ""Porphyrio"" (""Notornis"") ""caerulescens"", indicating an affinity with the Takahē (now ""Porphyrio hochstetteri"") of New Zealand. The American ornithologist Storrs L. Olson found the"
"meriana"" and a split-banded owlet butterfly ""Opsiphanes cassina merianae"". The Cuban sphinx moth has been named ""Erinnyis merianae"". A bug with no common name has been named ""Plisthenes merianae"". A genus of mantises has been named ""Sibylla"". The bird-eating spider ""Avicularia merianae"" was named in her honour, referencing her research on spiders. The spider ""Metellina merianae"" was named after her in 2017. The Argentine black-and-white tegu lizard has been named ""Salvator merianae"". The cane toad was named ""Rhinella merianae"". A snail with no common name was named ""Coquandiella meriana"". The Madagascan African stonechat bird was given the name ""Saxicola torquatus"
"birds"" because of their feeding habits. The specific ""collurio"" is from Ancient Greek ""kollurion"", a bird mentioned by Aristotle. The common English name ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. This 16–18 cm (approx. 6.3–7.1 inches) long migratory bird eats large insects, small birds, frogs, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a ""larder."" This practice has earned it the nickname of ""butcher bird."" The general colour of the male’s upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical"
"Apteryx, is endemic to New Zealand, 44% of the bird species native to New Zealand are endemic. Kiwis are placed in the ratite family, which also includes the emu, ostrich, rhea, and cassowary. All ratites are flightless. While it was long presumed that Kiwi were closely related to the extinct moa bird that once inhabited New Zealand, recent DNA research identified the extinct elephant bird of Madagascar as the Kiwi's closest relative. Additionally, the kiwi is more closely related to the emu and the cassowaries than to the moa. Before the great spotted kiwi was known to science, several stories"
"of several scientific names which are now synonymous with ""Aphanapteryx bonasia"". There are also depictions of what appears to be a red rail in three of the Dutch artist Roelant Savery's paintings. In his famous ""Edwards' Dodo"" painting from 1626, a rail-like bird is seen swallowing a frog behind the dodo, but this identification has been doubted, and it may instead show a bittern. A bird resembling a red rail is also figured in the Italian artist Jacopo Bassano's painting ""Arca di Noè"" (""Noah's Ark"") from c. 1570. It has been pointed out that it is doubtful that a Mauritian"
"Longipteryx Longipteryx is a genus of prehistoric bird which lived during the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage, 120.3 million years ago). It contains a single species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis. Its remains have been recovered from the Jiufotang Formation at Chaoyang in Liaoning Province, China. Apart from the holotype IVPP V 12325 - a fine and nearly complete skeleton — another entire skeleton (IPPV V 12552) and some isolated bones (a humerus and furcula, specimens IPPV V 12553, and an ulna, IPPV V 12554) are known to date. The name ""Longipteryx"" means ""one with long feathers"", from Latin ""longus"", ""long"" + Ancient Greek"
"""Gallus alexandrinus"", using the generic name ""Gallus"" which had been created by Lacépède after he recognised the genus distinct from ""Zeus"", a genus of dories. However, ""Gallus"" was preoccupied by a bird, leading to the reassignment of the species to at least six different genera, before the species was placed in ""Alectis"". The second description was made by Georges Cuvier in 1833 under the name of ""Gallichthys aegyptiacus"". This name was also re-evaluated twice, before the description was discarded as a junior synonym of ""A. alexandrina"". The species has also been incorrectly referred to as ""Alectis alexandrinus"". However the genus"
"Royal Society. It was one of the many bird species originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his ""Systema Naturae"", and still bears its original scientific name, ""Phaethon aethereus"". The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ""phaethon"", ""sun"" while the species name comes from Latin ""aetherius"", ""heavenly"". This bird is called the red-billed tropicbird due to its red bill and its location in the tropicbird genus. An alternative common name was ""bosun bird"", also spelt ""boatswain bird"", from the similarity of its shrill call to a boatswain's whistle. An alternative derivation of the name is"
"name ""Papilio ajax"" in 1758 in the tenth edition of ""Systema Naturae"" to what he believed to be a single species, which he placed in his large genus ""Papilio"". Apart from a short description, he mentioned its habitat as """"in America boreali"""" (in North-America), and provided references to """"Raj. Ins. III. n. 2"""" (John Ray, 1710; ""Historia insectorum"": 111, n° 2) and """"Edw. av. 34"""" (George Edwards, 1743; ""A natural history of birds"" volume 1: 34). In Edwards a description and a picture can be found, in Ray a description and a reference to ""Mouffet. Theat. Insect. p.98"" (Thomas Muffet,"
"a further thirteen days. Common redpoll The common redpoll (""Acanthis flammea"") is a species of bird in the finch family. It breeds somewhat further south than the Arctic redpoll, also in habitats with thickets or shrubs. The common redpoll was listed in 1758 by Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his ""Systema Naturae"" under the binomial name ""Fringilla flammea"". The current genus name ""Acanthis"" is from the Ancient Greek ""akanthis"", a name for a small now-unidentifiable bird, and ""flammea"" is the Latin for ""flame-coloured"". The common redpoll was previously placed in the genus ""Carduelis"". Molecular phylogenetic studies showed that the"
"of both species are mainly white with contrasting black on at least the wings, but are duller in winter. Females have white and brown plumage. The calls of both species are identical and include a low warbled ""hudidi feet feet feew hudidi feet feet feew hudidi"". Plectrophenax Plectrophenax is a small genus of passerine birds of the longspur family Calcariidae. The genus name ""Plectrophenax"" is from Ancient Greek ""plektron"", ""cock’s spur"", and ""phenax"" ""imposter"". It has two members, which may be conspecific. They are high Arctic breeding seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills, and much white in the plumage, especially"
"Plectrophenax Plectrophenax is a small genus of passerine birds of the longspur family Calcariidae. The genus name ""Plectrophenax"" is from Ancient Greek ""plektron"", ""cock’s spur"", and ""phenax"" ""imposter"". It has two members, which may be conspecific. They are high Arctic breeding seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills, and much white in the plumage, especially in adult males. They nest in rock crevices. As would be expected, both species are highly migratory, wintering in more temperate areas. The plumages are similar, but McKay's has more white and less black in the plumage, especially in the wings and tail. Adult breeding males"
"""A. maximus"" and ""D. stirtoni"" were revised to 540 and 730 kg, respectively. Four species are usually accepted in the genus ""Aepyornis"" today, but the validity of some is disputed, with numerous authors treating them all in just one species, ""A. maximus"". Up to three species are generally included in ""Mullerornis"". Several ratites outside of Madagascar have been posited as ""aepyornithid""-like and could potentially make this clade considerably more speciose. These include ""Eremopezus"" from the Eocene of North Africa, unnamed Canary Island remains and several Neogene taxa in Eurasia. ""Aepyornis maximus"" is commonly known as the 'elephant bird', a term"
"suggested that these characteristics are primitive features within the family. In spite of their age, it is not thought that the two species are ancestral to the secretary bird. Though strongly convergent with the modern secretarybird, the extinct raptor ""Apatosagittarius"" is thought to be an accipitrid. Its common name is popularly thought to derive from the crest of long quill-like feathers, lending the bird the appearance of a secretary with quill pens tucked behind their ear, as was once common practice. A more recent hypothesis is that ""secretary"" is borrowed from a French corruption of the Arabic ""saqr-et-tair"" or ""hunter-bird""."
"Protopteryx Protopteryx is an extinct genus of bird and the most primitive enantiornithean, from the Cretaceous period. The type species is ""P. fengningensis"". It was first discovered in the Sichakou Member of the Yixian Formation or Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, northern China, dating from 131 Ma ago. ""Protopteryx ""has been found in the Daibeigou formation, as well. The name ""Protopteryx"" means ""primitive feather"": ""proto-"" meaning ""the first of"" and ""-pteryx"" meaning ""feather"" or ""wing."" The name comes from the fact that ""Protopteryx"" feathers are more primitive than those of modern birds, such as the two elongated tail feathers that"
"namely ""acantho-""/ακανθο- ""spine"" and ""rhynchos""/ρυνχος ""bill"". Its specific name is from Latin ""tenuis"" ""narrow"" and ""rostrum"" ""billed"". Other English names include spine-billed honeyeater and awl-bird or cobbler’s awl bird. The eastern spinebill is polytypic consisting of the subspecies ""A. t. cairnsensis"", ""A. t. dubius"", ""A. t. halmaturinus"", and the nominate subspecies ""A. t. tenuirostris"". The eastern spinebill forms a superspecies with the closely related western spinebill. Scientists believe the two sister species are descended from a shared ancestor whose once widespread populations were separated by climate change. During a past period of desertification, that ancestor species retreated to refuges in"
"road accidents or predation, or from captive birds. Kiwi are no longer hunted and some Māori consider themselves the birds' guardians. In 1813, George Shaw named the genus ""Apteryx"" in his species description of the southern brown kiwi, which he called ""the southern apteryx"". Captain Andrew Barclay of the ship ""Providence"" provided Shaw with the specimen. Shaw's description was accompanied by two plates, engraved by Frederick Polydore Nodder; they were published in volume 24 of ""The Naturalist's Miscellany"". In 1851, London Zoo became the first zoo to keep kiwi. The first captive breeding took place in 1945. As of 2007"
"crows and ravens, shrikes, birds of paradise, fantails, drongos and mudnest builders. Alternate names include the Australian pied flycatcher, Australian pied monarch, banded monarch, pied monarch-flycatcher, black-breasted flycatcher, Kaup's flycatcher and pied flycatcher. Two subspecies are recognized: The pied monarch is in length and weighs around . The plumage is sexually dimorphic. The upperparts and head of the male are black, as is the tail, and the wings are brownish-black with white scapulars (which shows as a white crescent across the back when folded). The collar, which is erectable, is white, and it joins through the neck with a white"
"aphids. It is found throughout temperate areas of Western Europe, Asia, and North America and in the cooler parts of Africa, the Middle East, and South America. In the warmer parts of its range, apterous individuals can survive the winter and they may continue to reproduce asexually all year round. It is known to be migratory. Black bean aphid The black bean aphid (Aphis fabae) is a small black insect in the"" Aphis"" genus, with a broad, soft body, a member of the order Hemiptera. Other common names include blackfly, bean aphid, and beet leaf aphid. In the warmer months"
"Gobipteryx Gobipteryx (from Gobi [referring to the Gobi Desert where it was first discovered], Greek pteron “wing”) is a genus of prehistoric bird from the Campanian Age of the Late Cretaceous Period. It is not known to have any direct descendants. Like the rest of the enantiornithes clade, ""Gobipteryx"" is thought to have gone extinct near the end of the Cretaceous. Based on a skull length of 45 millimeters, ""Gobipteryx"" has been estimated to be approximately the size of a partridge. Its bones are fibrolamellar. The skull’s general shape is gradually tapering toward the front. ""Gobipteryx"" has a toothless beak"
"Amethyst sunbird The amethyst sunbird, also called the black sunbird (""Chalcomitra amethystina""), is a species of passerine bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is native to the Afrotropics, mostly south of the equator. They are commonly found in well-watered habitats, and undertake seasonal movements to visit flowering woodlands. The demise of some woodlands have impacted their numbers locally, but their range has also expanded along with the spread of wooded gardens. Though mostly found singly or in pairs, larger numbers may concentrate at favourite flowering trees, where they act aggressively towards other sunbird species. The complex song is a loud,"
"Southern brown kiwi The southern brown kiwi, tokoeka, or common kiwi, ""Apteryx australis"", is a species of kiwi from New Zealand's South Island. Until 2000 it was considered conspecific with the North Island brown kiwi, and still is by some authorities. ""Apteryx australis"" is based on Greek and Latin. ""Apteryx"" means """"A-"""" without """"pterux"""" wings, and """"australis"""" from """"auster"""" the south wind, and """"-alis"""" relating to. The southern brown kiwi belongs to the kiwi family and it is a ratite, and a member of the order Struthioniformes. Like all ratites, its sternum has no keel, it is flightless, and it"
"and sixth primaries. It is very similar to the rock partridge (""Alectoris graeca"") with which it has been lumped in the past but is browner on the back and has a yellowish tinge to the foreneck. The sharply defined gorget distinguishes this species from the red-legged partridge which has the black collar breaking into dark streaks near the breast. Their song is a noisy ""chuck-chuck-chukar-chukar"" from which the name is derived. The Barbary partridge (""Alectoris barbara"") has a reddish-brown rather than black collar with a grey throat and face with a chestnut crown. Other common names of this bird include"
"of Robert. Other older English names for the bird include ""ruddock"" and ""robinet"". In American literature of the late 19th century, this robin was frequently called the ""English robin"". Dutch ""roodborstje"", French ""rouge-gorge"", German ""Rotkehlchen"", Italian ""pettirosso"" and Spanish ""petirrojo"" all refer to the distinctively coloured front. The robin belongs to a group of mainly insectivorous birds that have been variously assigned to the thrushes or ""flycatchers"", depending on how these groups were perceived taxonomically. Eventually, the flycatcher-thrush assemblage was re-analysed and the genus ""Erithacus"" assigned to a group of thrush-like true flycatchers, the tribe Saxicolini, that also includes the"
"Perdix Perdix is a genus of Galliform gamebirds known collectively as the 'true partridges'. The genus name is the Latin for ""partridge"", and is itself derived from Ancient Greek ""‘πέρδιξ’ (pérdīx)"". These birds are unrelated to the subtropical species that have been named after the partridge due to similar size and morphology. There are representatives of Perdix in most of temperate Europe and Asia. One member of the genus, the grey partridge, has been introduced to the United States and Canada for the purpose of hunting. They are closely related to grouse, koklass, quail and pheasants. These are non-migratory birds"
"Dogmatix Dogmatix () is a fictional tiny white terrier dog who is a companion to Obelix in the ""Asterix"" comics. Dogmatix is a pun on the words dog and dogmatic. In the original French, his name is ""Idéfix"", itself a pun on the French expression ""idée fixe"" (fixed idea) meaning an obsession. Dogmatix is the only animal among the main characters of the series. His role is minor in most of the stories, significant mainly as a 'bone' of contention between Asterix and Obelix as to whether he should be allowed to accompany them on their adventures. However, he is"
"Papilio ajax Papilio ajax , is a scientific name given in 1758 by Linnaeus to what later appeared to be a combination of three species of butterflies. The name was placed on the ""Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology"" in 1954 after an application to that matter was submitted by Steven Corbet in 1945. The name no longer has a status as a scientific name, except in cases of homonymy; according to the rules of the ""International Code of Zoological Nomenclature"" the name ""Papilio ajax"" can no longer be given to any species. Linnaeus gave the"
"other Mascarene birds only known from contemporary accounts, the red rail and the Réunion swamphen. As the name ""Apterornis"" had already been used for a different bird by the English biologist Richard Owen, and the other former names were likewise invalid, Bonaparte coined the new binomial ""Ornithaptera borbonica"" in 1854 (Bourbon was the original French name for Réunion). In 1854, the German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel placed the solitaire in the same genus as the dodo, and named it ""Didus apterornis"". He restored it strictly according to contemporary accounts, which resulted in an ibis or stork-like bird instead of a dodo."
"is not an eagle. The common names of some birds include the term ""hawk"", reflecting traditional usage rather than taxonomy. For example, some people may call an osprey a ""fish hawk"" or a peregrine falcon a ""duck hawk"". Falconry was once called ""hawking"" and any bird used for falconry could be referred to as a hawk. Aristotle listed eleven types of (""hierakes"", hawks, singular ""hierax""): aisalōn (merlin), asterias, hypotriorchēs, kirkos, leios, perkos, phassophonos, phrynologos, pternis, spizias, and triorchēs. Pliny numbered sixteen kinds of hawks, but named only aigithos, epileios, kenchrēïs (kestrel), kybindis, and triorchēs (buzzard). The accipitrine hawks generally hunt"
"the year as well. King of Saxony bird-of-paradise The King of Saxony bird-of-paradise (""Pteridophora alberti"") is a bird in the bird-of-paradise family (""Paradisaeidae""). It is the only member in the monotypic genus Pteridophora. It is endemic to montane forest in New Guinea. Adolf Bernard Meyer of the Dresden Museum described this species in the December 1894 bulletin of the British Ornithologist's Club. Both the common name ""King of Saxony"" and the scientific specific name """"alberti"""" were given to honour to the then king of Saxony, Albert of Saxony, whose wife gave her name to the Queen Carola's parotia. The bird"