"heart-shaped facial disc, and lack the ear-like tufts of feathers found in many other owls. ""Tyto"" owls tend to be larger than bay-owls. The name ""tyto (τυτώ)"" is onomatopeic Greek for owl. Tyto Tyto is a genus of birds consisting of true barn owls, grass owls and masked owls that collectively make up all the species within the subfamily Tytoninae of the barn owl family, Tytonidae. Throughout their evolutionary history, ""Tyto"" owls have shown a better capability to colonize islands than other owls. Several such island forms have become extinct, some long ago, but some in comparatively recent times. A"
"Barn owl The barn owl (""Tyto alba"") is the most widely distributed species of owl and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as the common barn owl, to distinguish it from other species in its family, Tytonidae, which forms one of the two main lineages of living owls, the other being the typical owls (Strigidae). The barn owl is found almost everywhere in the world except polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalayas, most of Indonesia, and some Pacific islands. Phylogenetic evidence shows that there are at least three major lineages"
"rice-growing areas of Malaysia where the rodents do much damage to the crop. However, although barn owl numbers have increased in both these instances, it is unclear as to how effective this biological control of the rats is as compared to the trapping and baiting that occurred previously. Barn owl The barn owl (""Tyto alba"") is the most widely distributed species of owl and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as the common barn owl, to distinguish it from other species in its family, Tytonidae, which forms one of the two main lineages"
"birds depicted in the Bird Room of the Royal Palace in Oslo. Jethro Tull mentions the hooded crow on the song ""Jack Frost and the hooded crow"" as a bonus track on the digitally remastered version of ""Broadsword and the Beast"" and on their ""The Christmas Album"". Hooded crow The hooded crow (""Corvus cornix"") (also called hoodie) is a Eurasian bird species in the ""Corvus"" genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch crow and Danish crow. In Ireland, it is called ""caróg liath"" or grey crow, just as in the Slavic languages and in Danish. In German,"
"White tern The white tern (""Gygis alba"") is a small seabird found across the tropical oceans of the world. It is sometimes known as the fairy tern although this name is potentially confusing as it is the common name of the fairy tern (""Sternula nereis""). Other names for the species include angel tern and white noddy. The white tern was first formally described by the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman in 1786 under the binomial name ""Sterna alba"". The genus ""Gygis"" was introduced by the German zoologist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832. The name ""Gygis"" is from the Ancient Greek ""guges"""
"Aquila (constellation) Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Its brightest star, Altair, is one vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism. The constellation is best seen in the northern summer, as it is located along the Milky Way. Because of this location, many clusters and nebulae are found within its borders, but they are dim and galaxies are few. Aquila was one of the 48 constellations described by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy. It had been earlier mentioned by Eudoxus in the"
"also commonly known as Salvadori's monitor, the Papua monitor, or the artelia. Many other species of birds are named after him, for example, Salvadori's fig parrot ""Psittaculirostris salvadorii"", Yellow-capped pygmy parrot (""Micropsitta keiensis""), Salvadori nightjar (""Caprimulgus pulchellus""), Salvadori's antwren (""Myrmotherula minor""), Salvadori's eremomela (""Eremomela salvadorii""), Salvadori's seedeater (""Serinus xantholaemus""), Salvadori's teal (""Salvadorina waigiuensis"") and others. He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology. partial list Tommaso Salvadori Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist. Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel"
"for a mythical bird and the specific ""alba"" is Latin for ""white"". Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the white tern is more closely related to the noddies than it is to the other terns. This implies that ""white noddy"" would be a more appropriate English name. The white tern has the following subspecies: The subspecies ""G. a. microrhyncha"", the little white tern, is sometimes considered as a separate species, ""Gygis microrhyncha"". Related to the noddies, the white tern is small bird with a wingspan of . It has white plumage and a long black bill. Nesting on coral islands,"
"Alpine swift The Alpine swift (""Tachymarptis melba"") formerly ""Apus melba"", is a species of swift. The genus name is from the Ancient Greek ""takhus"", ""fast"", and ""marptis"", ""seizer"". The specific name ""melba"" comes from ‘melano-alba’ or ‘mel-alba’; Eigenhuis & Swaab (1992) posited that ‘melba’ might be a short form for ‘melano-alba’ or ‘mel-alba’ (Gr. melas, melanos = black; L. albus = white). Linnaeus certainly referred to these two colors in his diagnosis. Alpine swifts breed in mountains from southern Europe to the Himalaya. Like common swifts, they are strongly migratory, and winter much further south in southern Africa. Swifts have"
"albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus ""Diomedea"" (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. It is one of the largest birds in the world and has the greatest known wingspan of any living bird, and one of the best known and studied species of bird in the world. This is also one of the most far ranging birds. Some individual wandering albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times, covering more than , in one year. The wandering albatross was first described as ""Diomedea exulans"" by Carl Linnaeus,"
"of a female bird in the Watling drawings. He coined the English name ""red-breasted tody"" and classified it in the genus ""Todus"". Its specific name, ""rubecula"", comes from the Latin for robin. A local name around Sydney is frogbird, derived from its guttural call. Other variants of its common name include blue- or leaden-coloured flycatcher, leaden Myiagra and leaden Myiagra flycatcher. The leaden flycatcher is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers. This group is considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family Dicruridae, or as a family Monarchidae"
"believed to be the African hill babbler and Dohrn's thrush-babbler, both of which should probably be placed in ""Sylvia"" rather than their current genera, ""Pseudoalcippe"" and ""Horizorhinus"" respectively. The garden warbler was given the binomial name ""Motacilla borin"" by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert in 1783. The current genus name is from Modern Latin ""silvia"", a woodland nymph, related to ""silva"", a wood. The specific ""borin"" is derived from a local name for the bird in the Genoa area of Italy; it derives from the Latin ""bos"", ox, because the warbler was believed to accompany oxen. There are two recognised"
"bird species originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his ""Systema Naturae"", where it was given the binomial name of ""Strix scandiaca"". The genus name ""Bubo"" is Latin for the Eurasian eagle-owl and ""scandiaca"" is New Latin for Scandinavia. Until recently, the snowy owl was regarded as the sole member of a distinct genus, as ""Nyctea scandiaca"", but mtDNA cytochrome ""b"" sequence data (Olsen et al. 2002) shows that it is very closely related to the horned owls in the genus ""Bubo"". However, some authorities debate this classification, still preferring ""Nyctea"". This yellow-eyed, black-beaked white bird"
"Willughby wrote about the white stork in the 17th century, having seen a drawing sent to him by his friend and natural history enthusiast Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich. He named it ""Ciconia alba"". They noted they were occasional vagrants to England, blown there by storms. It was one of the many bird species originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his ""Systema Naturae"", where it was given the binomial name of ""Ardea ciconia"". It was reclassified to (and was designated the type species of) the new genus ""Ciconia"" by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in"
"morpha ""leucophaeus"". In modern Faroese, the bird is called ""hvítravnur"" (""white raven""), older name ""gorpur bringu hvíti"" (""white-chested corbie""). Normal individuals of the subspecies ""varius"", which is found on Iceland and the Faroe Islands, already show a tendency towards more extensive white feather bases compared with the nominate subspecies. But only on the Faroes, a mutation in the melanin metabolism would become fixed in the population, causing some birds to have about half of their feathers entirely white. While albinotic specimens sometimes occur in bird populations, the pied raven seems not to have been based on such occasional ""sports"", but"
"birds: western capercaillie (""Tetrao urogallus""), white-crowned wheatear (""Oenanthe leucopyga""), red kite (""Milvus milvus""), red-footed falcon (""Falco vespartinus""), white wagtail (""Motacilla alba""), European nightjar (""Caprimulgus europaeus""), rock bunting (""Emberiza cia""), lesser spotted eagle (""Aquila pomarina""), wallcreeper (""Tichodroma muraria""), hoopoe (""Upupa epops""), Reptiles, amphibians and frogs: green lizard (""Lacerta viridis""), common European adder (""Vipera berus""), smooth snake (""Coronella austriaca""), fire salamander (""Salamandra salamandra""), alpine newt (""Triturus alpestris""), common toad (""Bufo bufo""), yellow-bellied toad (""Bombina variegata"") or common frog (""Rana temporaria""). Buila-Vânturarița National Park The Buila-Vânturarița National Park () (national park category II IUCN) is a protected area situated in Romania, in the"
"fulva""), greater hoopoe-lark (""Alaemon alaudipes""), greater short-toed lark (""Calandrella brachydactyla""), helmeted guineafowl (""Numida meleagris""), hottentot teal (""Anas hottentota""), lanner falcon (""Falco biarmicus""), lappet-faced vulture (""Torgos tracheliotus""), laughing dove (""Streptopelia senegalensis""), Lichtenstein's sandgrouse (""Pterocles lichtensteinii""), little owl (""Athene noctua""), northern wheatear (""Oenanthe oenanthe""), Nubian bustard (""Neotis Nuba""), pallid swift (""Apus pallidus""), pygmy sunbird (""Anthreptes platurus""), red-billed teal (""Anas erythrorhyncha""), rock dove (""Columba livia""), rock martin (""Ptyonoprogne fuligula""), rufous-tailed scrub robin (""Erythropygia galactotes""), Rüppell's warbler (""Sylvia rueppelli""), sand martin (""Riparia riparia""), southern grey shrike (""Lanius meridionalis""), spotted sandgrouse (""Pterocles senegallus""), striolated bunting (""Emberiza striolata""), subalpine warbler (""Sylvia cantillans""), Sudan golden sparrow (""Passer"
"Sanderling The sanderling (""Calidris alba"") is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English ""sand-yrðling"", ""sand-ploughman"". The genus name is from Ancient Greek ""kalidris"" or ""skalidris"", a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific ""alba"" is Latin for ""white"". It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, South Europe, Africa, and Australia. It is highly gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks on coastal mudflats or sandy beaches. It is somewhat unlike other sandpipers in appearance, which has led to the suggestion that it should be"
"Tawny eagle The tawny eagle (""Aquila rapax"") is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the migratory steppe eagle, ""Aquila nipalensis"", and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy; two molecular studies, each based on a very small number of genes, indicate that the species are distinct, but disagree over how closely related they are. It breeds in most of Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across"
"spiders and seeds. Outside of the nesting season, these birds forage in mixed flocks. In winter, they also eat berries and plant nectar. The song of the male bird is a buzzed ""zee-zee-zee-bzz-zee"", somewhat similar to that of its eastern relative, the black-throated green warbler. The call is a sharp ""tup"". This bird was named after the American ornithologist, John Kirk Townsend. Although Townsend is also credited with first describing this bird, he used a name chosen by Thomas Nuttall, who was travelling with him, and so sidestepped the convention against naming a species after oneself. Townsend's warbler Townsend's warbler"
"Booted eagle ""Aquila minuta"""" redirects here. If based on Brehm (1831), it refers to this bird. The fossil bird described under the same name by Milne-Edwards (1871) is preliminarily known as """"Hieraaetus"" edwardsi"" but might belong in ""Aquila""."" The booted eagle (""Hieraaetus pennatus"", also classified as ""Aquila pennata"") is a medium-sized mostly migratory bird of prey with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and southern Asia, wintering in the tropics of Africa and Asia, with a small, disjunct breeding population in south-western Africa. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family ""Accipitridae"". The booted is a small eagle, comparable to"
"are unlikely to be confused due to differences in size and form. The only species in the ""Aquila"" genus that exceeds the golden eagle in average wingspan and length is the wedge-tailed eagle of Australasia; however, the wedge-tailed eagle is a slightly less heavy bird. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his 1758 ""Systema naturae"" as ""Falco chrysaetos"". Since birds were grouped largely on superficial characteristics at that time, many species were grouped by Linnaeus into the genus ""Falco"". The type locality was given simply as ""Europa""; it was later fixed to Sweden. It was moved to the"
"to the bird's relatively long legs. The specific name ""fenwickorum"" recognises George Fenwick, President of the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), and his family, who assisted Fundación ProAves (ABC's partner organization in Colombia) in the purchase of land, now the Colibrí del Sol Bird Reserve. Based on present knowledge, the antpitta is restricted to the reserve and its immediate surroundings. ProAves's suggested English name also honours Fenwick, while the Spanish common name ""Tororoi de Urrao"" is given after the municipality of Urrao, where the bird is found. ""Tororoi"" is a general Spanish name used for most antpitta species. The creation of"
"fourth century BC and Aratus in the third century BC. It is now one of the 88 constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. The constellation was also known as ""Vultur volans"" (the flying vulture) to the Romans, not to be confused with ""Vultur cadens"" which was their name for Lyra. It is often held to represent the eagle which held Zeus's/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology. Aquila is also associated with the eagle that kidnapped Ganymede, a son of one of the kings of Troy (associated with Aquarius), to Mount Olympus to serve as cup-bearer to the gods. Ptolemy catalogued"
"Hooded crow The hooded crow (""Corvus cornix"") (also called hoodie) is a Eurasian bird species in the ""Corvus"" genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch crow and Danish crow. In Ireland, it is called ""caróg liath"" or grey crow, just as in the Slavic languages and in Danish. In German, it is called ""mist crow"" (""Nebelkrähe""). Found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East, it is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black bill, eyes, and feet. Like other"
"""falco"" is from Late Latin ""falx"", ""falcis"", a sickle, referring to the claws of the bird. The species name ""eleonorae"" again commemorates the Sardinian Eleanor of Arborea, who passed a law protecting nesting hawks and falcons. Eleonora's falcon is an elegant bird of prey, long with an wingspan. It is shaped like a large Eurasian hobby or a small slender peregrine falcon, with its long pointed wings, long tail and slim body. There are two colour morphs: The adult dark morph is all sooty brown, with black underwing coverts. The light morph is more like a juvenile Eurasian hobby, but"
"orchid (""Orchis simia""), fragrant orchid (""Gymnadenia conopsea""), corydalis (""Corydalis pumila""), crocus (""Crocus flavus""). Species of mammals: brown bear (""Ursus arctos""), deer (""Cervus elaphus""), roe deer (""Capreolus capreolus""), gray wolf (""Canis lupus""), wild boar (""Sus scrofa""), European otter (""Lutra lutra""), lynx (""Lynx linx""), wildcat (""Felis silvestris""), pine marten (""Martes martes""), badger (""Males males""), pygmy shrew (""Sorex minutus""), Blasius's horseshoe bat (""Rhinolophus blasii"") or lesser mouse-eared bat (""Myotis blythii""). Species of birds: golden eagle (""Aquila chrysaetos""), lesser spotted eagle (""Aquila pomarina""), common kingfisher (""Alcedo athis""), hazel grouse (""Bonasa bonasia""), hen harrier (""Circus cyaneus""), Eurasian eagle-owl (""Bubo bubo""), short-toed snake eagle (""Circaetus gallicus""),"
"Thick-billed murre The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (""Uria lomvia"") is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). This bird is named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich. The very deeply black North Pacific subspecies ""Uria lomvia arra"" is also called Pallas' murre after its describer. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ""ouria"", a waterbird mentioned by Athenaeus. The species term ""lomvia"" is a Swedish word for an auk or diver. The English ""guillemot"" is from French ""guillemot"" probably derived from ""Guillaume"", ""William"". ""Murre"" is of uncertain origins, but may imitate the call of the common guillemot. Murres"
"Great horned owl The great horned owl (""Bubo virginianus""), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the ""winged tiger"" or ""tiger of the air"") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice, and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, including rodents and other small mammals, larger mid-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. In ornithological"
"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"
"White tern (Gygis alba) locally known as Dhondheeni(ދޮންދީނި), sometimes called as Kandhuvalu dhooni is a small seabird traditionally only confined to the Addu Atoll, the southern uttermost atoll in the Maldives. The White tern is one of the most beautiful and interesting resident birds found in the Maldives. It has its body white with black eye-ring and black bill with blue at the base. Legs and feet are also blue, with yellow to webs. In recent decades the white tern has been proudly used as a symbol by the people of Addu Atoll to represent their atoll in the Maldives."
"Greater yellowlegs The greater yellowlegs (""Tringa melanoleuca"") is a large North American shorebird. 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 "" melanoleuca"" is from Ancient Greek ""melas"", ""black"", and ""leukos"", ""white"". The greater yellowlegs is similar in appearance to the smaller lesser yellowlegs. Its closest relative, however, is the greenshank, which together with the spotted redshank form a close-knit group. Among them, these three species show all the basic leg and foot colors"
"name ""melanocephala"" is derived from the Ancient Greek words ""melas"" ""black"", and ""kephale"" ""head"", referring to its black crown. Other common names include Mickey miner and soldierbird. Four subspecies are recognised, including subspecies ""leachi"" found in eastern Tasmania. The mainland population was split into three subspecies in 1999 by Richard Schodde—""titaniota"" from Cape York Peninsula in Queensland as far south as Mareeba, ""lepidota"" from central Queensland and inland New South Wales west of Nyngan, and the nominate subspecies ""melanocephala"" from southeastern New South Wales, Victoria, and southern South Australia. There are broad zones where birds are intermediate between subspecies. Further"