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Dives (bird)
''Dives'' is a genus of Neotropical birds in the family Icteridae. The melodious blackbird lives in Mexico and Central America; the scrub blackbird in Ecuador and Peru. The three species look similar, with plumage ranging from brownish black in juveniles to black with iridescence (green, blue, or violet) in adults, slightly more iridescent in males. The bare parts are black and the eyes are dark brown. The upper edge of the bill (the culmen) is curved, not flattened as in many other icterids, and the bill has a slight hook at the tip. The songs are varied and pleasant. If the ranges of the melodious blackbird and the northern populations of the scrub blackbird overlapped, they would be indistinguishable in the field apart from voice, and some authorities lump these two species into one; on the other hand some split the scrub blackbird into two species. All three live in open habitats, including agricultural land, and have adapted well to human disturbance. This genus is bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Blackbird
The Cuban blackbird (''Ptiloxena atroviolaceus'') is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It was previously placed in Dives_(bird), ''Dives'', but now classified in its own genus, the ''Ptiloxena''. Measuring long, this species has entirely black plumage with a slight violet sheen on the upperparts. The only non-black body part is the brown eye. It is endemic to Cuba, where it is widespread and common. It is entirely absent from the Isla de la Juventud and some of the offshore cays. Its natural habitats are Cuban moist forests#Lowland forests, lowland moist forests and heavily degraded former forest. References External links * * * * * * Dives (bird), Cuban blackbird Endemic birds of Cuba Birds described in 1839, Cuban blackbird Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Icteridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dives Atroviolacea
The Cuban blackbird (''Ptiloxena atroviolaceus'') is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It was previously placed in ''Dives'', but now classified in its own genus, the ''Ptiloxena''. Measuring long, this species has entirely black plumage with a slight violet sheen on the upperparts. The only non-black body part is the brown eye. It is endemic to Cuba, where it is widespread and common. It is entirely absent from the Isla de la Juventud and some of the offshore cays. Its natural habitats are lowland moist forests and heavily degraded former forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' .... References External links * * * * * * Cuban blackbird Endemic birds of Cuba Cuban blackbird Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumpers And Splitters
Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories. The lumper–splitter problem occurs when there is the desire to create classifications and assign examples to them, for example schools of literature, biological Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary in ... taxon, taxa and so on. A "lumper" is a person who assigns examples broadly, assuming that differences are not as important as signature similarities. A "splitter" is one who makes precise definitions, and creates new categories to classify samples that differ in key ways. Origin of the terms The earliest known use of these terms was by Charles Darwin, in a letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1857: ''It is good to have hair-splitters & lump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dives (bird)
''Dives'' is a genus of Neotropical birds in the family Icteridae. The melodious blackbird lives in Mexico and Central America; the scrub blackbird in Ecuador and Peru. The three species look similar, with plumage ranging from brownish black in juveniles to black with iridescence (green, blue, or violet) in adults, slightly more iridescent in males. The bare parts are black and the eyes are dark brown. The upper edge of the bill (the culmen) is curved, not flattened as in many other icterids, and the bill has a slight hook at the tip. The songs are varied and pleasant. If the ranges of the melodious blackbird and the northern populations of the scrub blackbird overlapped, they would be indistinguishable in the field apart from voice, and some authorities lump these two species into one; on the other hand some split the scrub blackbird into two species. All three live in open habitats, including agricultural land, and have adapted well to human disturbance. This genus is bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrub Blackbird
The scrub blackbird (''Dives warczewiczi'') is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru and its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...s and heavily degraded former forest. References External linksImage at ADW scrub blackbird Birds of Ecuador Birds of Peru scrub blackbird Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Icteridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrub Blackbird - South Ecuador S4E7818 (23806878191)
Scrub(s) may refer to: * Scrub, low shrub and grass characteristic of scrubland * Scrubs (clothing), worn by medical staff * ''Scrubs'' (TV series), an American television program * Scrubs (occupation), also called "scrub tech," "scrub nurse," or "surgical technologist" * Wormwood Scrubs, also known as "The Scrubs", an area in west London * HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, also known as "The Scrubs", a prison in London * Scrub baseball, also known as "scrub" or "scrubs", an informal game of baseball without teams * Patrick Drake and Robin Scorpio, a supercouple featured on the daytime soap opera ''General Hospital'', known to fans as "Scrubs" See also * Carbon dioxide scrubber, which absorbs that gas from exhaled air in a rebreather, a spacecraft or submersible craft * Scrubbing (audio), an interaction in which a playhead is dragged across a segment of audio to play it * Data scrubbing, an error correction technique * Deku Scrubs or Deku, a fictional race of creatures in ''The Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodious Blackbird
The melodious blackbird (''Dives dives'') is a New World tropical bird. Description The adult is a medium-sized blackbird with a rounded tail. The male is long and weighs . The slightly smaller female is long and weighs . The adult plumage is entirely black with a bluish gloss, and the bill, legs and feet are also black. The iris is brown. Females are identically plumaged to the males; young birds are brownish black and lack iridescence. There are no subspecies. Voice The song is a duet between pairs, with a ''see'' note, followed by a ''whit'' and a northern cardinal-like whistle. The call is a metallic . Distribution and habitat ''D. dives'' is a resident breeder from coastal eastern and south-eastern Mexico to Costa Rica. Its range is expanding. El Salvador was colonized in the 1950s, and eastern Guatemala in the 1960s. Prior to 1989 there was only one Costa Rican record, but it is now easily seen at least as far south as San José, and it is expected to colonize P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tordo Cantor - Panoramio
Tordo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fernando Tordo (born 1948), Portuguese singer and composer * Jean-François Tordo (born 1964), French rugby union player * João Tordo (born 1975), Portuguese writer See also * Tord Tord is a given name, derived from the elements thor meaning thunder, thunder god; and '' meaning peace, beautiful, fair. The name developed as a short form of Thorfrid (Old Norse). Notable people with the name include: * Tord Andersson (born 1 ... * Tormo {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dives may refer to: * Dives, Oise, a French commune of the Oise département * Dives (river), a river in Normandy * Dives-sur-Mer, a commune in Normandy * ''Dives'' (bird), a genus of New World blackbirds * Dis Pater, Roman god of the underworld, contracted from ''Dives Pater'' ("Father of Riches") * Dives, 'the rich man' in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus * Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115–53 BC), a Roman politician, who was known as ''Dives'', meaning "The Rich" or "Moneybags" * Chrysophylax Dives, "Goldward the Rich," the dragon in ''Farmer Giles of Ham'' * Lewis Dives, English Member of Parliament * SU Dives, a French association football club founded in 1929 See also * * * Dive (other) Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiscalus
The avian genus ''Quiscalus'' contains seven of the 11 species of grackles, gregarious passerine birds in the icterid family. They are native to North and South America. The genus was named and described by French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the common grackle (''Quiscalus quiscula'') by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840. The genus name comes from the specific name ''Gracula quiscula'' coined by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus for the common grackle. From where Linnaeus obtained the word is uncertain, but it may come from the Taíno word ''quisqueya'', meaning "mother of all lands", for the island of Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th .... The genus contains six extant spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphagus
''Euphagus'' is a small genus of American blackbirds. It contains two extant species: Brewer's blackbird, ''Euphagus cyanocephalus'', and rusty blackbird ''E. carolinus''. The living species are very similar medium-sized birds. Adult males have mainly black plumage and a bright yellow eye; females are dark gray-brown. Extant species A prehistoric relative, the large-billed blackbird (''Euphagus magnirostris''), is known from Late Pleistocene fossils found in the famous tar seeps of Rancho La Brea, California, as well as the Talara Tar Seeps of northwestern Peru and the Mene de Inciarte Tar Seep of Venezuela. It may have been a close associate of Pleistocene megafauna communities and went extinct following the collapse of the megafauna populations. Description Both are migratory, wintering in the southern United States and Mexico, although some Brewer's blackbirds are present all year in the western US. They build cup nests, and the female alone incubates the eggs. They a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy for the Union" , national_anthem = "National Anthem of Peru" , march = "March of Flags" , image_map = PER orthographic.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Lima , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Peruvian Spanish, Spanish , languages_type = Co-official languages , languages = , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , demonym = Peruvians, Peruvian , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Semi-presidential system, semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President of Peru, President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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