Buttonquail — Taxobox name = Buttonquail image caption = Small Buttonquail regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Turnicidae familia authority = GR Gray, 1840 subdivision ranks = Genera subdivision = Turnix… … Wikipedia
William Henry Sykes — William Henry Sykes. Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS (January 25, 1790 – June 16, 1872) was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist. Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces… … Wikipedia
List of families — This is a list of families used in scientific classification.=Kingdom Animalia=Phylum ChordataClass AvesOrder Accipitriformes* Family Accipitridae: hawks, eagles, buzzards, Old World vultures, and allies * Family Cathartidae: New World vultures * … Wikipedia
List of Southern African birds — This is a list of the bird species recorded in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is defined as Africa south of a line between the Kunene and Zambezi rivers, encompassing Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and southern… … Wikipedia
bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a … Universalium
gruiform — /grooh euh fawrm /, adj. Ornith. of or pertaining to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots. [1895 1900; < NL gruiformis, sing. of Gruiformes, equiv. to Gru , s. of Grus a genus of the order (L grus CRANE) + iformes… … Universalium
hemipode — hemipodan /heuh mip euh dn/, adj. /hem i pohd /, n. See button quail. [1860 65; < NL Hemipodius name of the genus < Gk hemipod (s. of hemípous) half foot. See HEMI , POD] * * * ▪ bird (Greek: “half foot”), generally any bird of the suborder … Universalium
plains wanderer — ▪ bird also called Collared Hemipode (species Pedionomus torquatus), Australian bird resembling a tiny quail. It has a mottled reddish brown body and a collar of black spots against a white throat. The plains wanderer constitutes the… … Universalium
Echte Kampfwachteln — tripirštiniai statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas atitikmenys: lot. Turnicidae angl. buttonquails vok. Echte Kampfwachteln; Kampfwachteln; Laufhühnchen; Wachtellaufhühnchen rus. трёхперстки pranc. cailles batailleuses; cailles outardes;… … Paukščių pavadinimų žodynas
