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Ceará Gnateater
The Ceará gnateater or Caatinga gnateater (''Conopophaga cearae'') is a passerine bird of the gnateater family, Conopophagidae. It is found in forest understory and bushes in northeastern Brazil. The Ceara gnateater is locally called "''cupadente''", or "spitter" in Portuguese due to the sound it produces when it vocalizes. Appearance They are about 11.5 to 14 cm (4.5 to 5.5 in) long. The Ceará gnateater used to be considered a subspecies of the rufous gnateater (''Conopophaga lineata),'' but recent evidence shows they are distinct species.Ceara Gnateater (''Conopophaga cearae''), In Neotropical Birds Online (, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/rufgna2 Although there are no apparent differences in the vocalizations between these species, genetic analysis shows the distinction between the two. They also differ slightly in appearance. Ceará gnateat ...
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Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ...
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