American avocet

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• American Avocet — Taxobox name = American Avocet status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 240px image caption = Summer plumage regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Recurvirostridae genus = Recurvirostra… …   Wikipedia

• American avocet — amerikinė avocetė statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas atitikmenys: lot. Recurvirostra americana angl. American avocet vok. Braunhals Säbelschnäbler, m rus. американская шилоклювка, f pranc. avocette d Amérique, f ryšiai: platesnis terminas –… …   Paukščių pavadinimų žodynas

• avocet — /av euh set /, n. any of several long legged, web footed shorebirds constituting the genus Recurvirostra, having a long, slender, upward curving bill. [1760 70; < F avocette, prob. erroneous sp. for NL avosetta < It < Upper It ( < Venetian)] * *… …   Universalium

• Avocet — Taxobox name = Avocets image width = 250px image caption = Pied Avocet ( Recurvirostra avosetta ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Recurvirostridae genus = Recurvirostra genus authority =… …   Wikipedia

• Avocet — Av o*cet, Avoset Av o*set ([a^]v [ o]*s[e^]t), n. [F. avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zo[ o]l.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus {Recurvirostra}; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Birds of North American boreal forests — The boreal forest or taiga of the North American continent stretches through a majority of Canada and most of central Alaska, extending spottily into the beginning of the Rocky Mountain range in Northern Montana and into New England and the… …   Wikipedia

• USS Avocet (AVP-4) — For other ships of the same name, see USS Avocet. USS Avocet in foreground during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. USS Nevada is in the background, with a large American flag on her bow. Career (US) …   Wikipedia

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• Sibley-Monroe checklist 8 — The Sibley Monroe checklist was a landmark document in the study of birds. It drew on extensive DNA DNA hybridisation studies to reassess the relationships between modern birds. Ciconiiformes (continued)Chionididae* Chionis alba Snowy Sheathbill… …   Wikipedia

• Hybridisation in shorebirds — has been proven on only a small number of occasions; however, many individual shorebirds have been recorded by birdwatchers worldwide which do not fit the characters of known species. Many of these have been suspected of being hybrids. In several …   Wikipedia

• List of birds in Canada and the United States — This list of birds in Canada and the United States is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species known from the North American continent north of Mexico as of July 2008.North American birds most closely resemble those of Eurasia, which was… …   Wikipedia