单词 | tinamou |
例句 | Animals such as the tinamou, a bird the local Indigenous people consider sacred, even scarcer. Brazil’s first minister of Indigenous peoples starts job amid crises 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Panguana’s name comes from the local word for the undulated tinamou, a species of ground bird common to the Amazon basin. She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z His recordings of the unique, mournful song of the tinamou will form the baseline count for a long-running study that couldn’t have been done by mere observation. With bioacoustics, conservationists try to save birds through their songs 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z But within Los Amigos are quetzals, tinamous, trumpeters, and everything else that their ongoing presence represents. Climate Change vs. Conservation 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z But there is a striking exception: the eggs of the tinamou, a shy, ground-dwelling bird native to South and Central America. The Shy, Drab Tinamou Has a Stunning Palette That Still Holds More Mysteries Than Answers. 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z They found that the closest relative of the moa was a small flying bird from Central and South America called the tinamou. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Another bird sure to interest the sportsman is the Patagonian prairie chicken known as the tinamou. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Reid Rumelt, a computational ornithologist, just returned to his D.C. home from the Andes Mountains, where he recorded 3,600 hours of the endangered undulated tinamou. With bioacoustics, conservationists try to save birds through their songs 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z This way of taking the tinamou may seem unsportsmanlike. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Unlike most birds, male tinamous take sole responsibility for egg-incubating duties, and a single nest might contain eggs from several females. The Shy, Drab Tinamou Has a Stunning Palette That Still Holds More Mysteries Than Answers. 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Outdoors he had deposited the coarser game intended for the mess, consisting, today, of a small deer, a tinamou or maam and two agoutis. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The larger one is known as the rufous and the smaller one as the spotted tinamou. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z About the same hour, and sometimes even at midnight, you hear two species of maam, or tinamou, send forth their long and plaintive whistle from the depth of the forest. Wanderings in South America The bird was not a real partridge though it looks like it, but was the common or spotted tinamou of the plains, Nothura maculosa, as good a table bird as our partridge. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z They quantified its smoothness down to the nanometer scale and measured the shininess of the mirrorlike surface, finding that tinamou eggs are up to 14 times as glossy as the average chicken egg. The Shy, Drab Tinamou Has a Stunning Palette That Still Holds More Mysteries Than Answers. 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The moriche orioles met the beauty of the heavens with their silver notes, and as the sky cooled, there arose the sweet, trilled cadence of the little tinamou heralding the voices of night. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z It was for this same reason that the tinamou and quail and other ground-nesting birds escaped the keen noses of the foxes, otherwise they would have been exterminated long ago. The Black Phantom They are from South America; the tinamous, from the warmer parts of the Continent; and the megapodius, of Australia and the Asiatic islands. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits About the same hour, and sometimes even at midnight, you hear two species of maam, or tinamou, send forth their long and plaintive whistle from the depth of the forest. Wanderings in South America At first, the team hypothesized that tinamou eggs might possess a special pigment. The Shy, Drab Tinamou Has a Stunning Palette That Still Holds More Mysteries Than Answers. 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In every way it is adapted to the conditions of the pampas in a far greater degree than other pampean birds, only excepting the rufous and spotted tinamous. The Naturalist in La Plata About eight years ago a gentleman in Essex introduced the rufous tinamou—a handsome game bird, nearly as large as a fowl—into his estate. Birds in Town and Village We also went tinamou, or partridge, catching, and sometimes we had sham fights with lances, or long canes with which we supplied the others. Far Away and Long Ago At the close of day the great tinamou gives a loud, monotonous, plaintive whistle, and then immediately springs into the tree. Wanderings in South America Herbert rightly gave them the name of tinamous, and it was resolved that they should be the first tenants of their future poultry-yard. The Mysterious Island The most characteristic pampean birds are the tinamous—called partridges in the vernacular—the rufous tinamou, large as a fowl, and the spotted tinamou, which is about the size of the English partridge. The Naturalist in La Plata There is something remarkable in the great tinamou which I suspect has hitherto escaped notice. Wanderings in South America The first were the two tinamous, which were not long in having a number of young ones; they had for companions half a dozen ducks, accustomed to the borders of the lake. The Mysterious Island The small tinamou has nothing that can be called a tail. Wanderings in South America |
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