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Jamaican oriole (nominate race,Icterus leucopteryx leucopteryx)
| Resolution: 850x605
File Size: 113175 Bytes
Date: 2007:03:03 01:45:40
Camera: Canon EOS 20D (Canon)
F number: f/5.0
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Focal Length: 300/1
Upload Date: 2008:01:28 14:56:51
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metazoa16
{{ Jamaican oriole (nominate race,Icterus leucopteryx leucopteryx). Anchovy,
north-western Jamaica. }}
{{ Hymns to Him in the Highest }}
{{ The passerine birds are such a huge assemblage of birds that I have decided to place
them in a section all of their own. }}
{{ ORDER PASSERIFORMES }}
{{ The largest avian order is that of the songbirds. Including almost three
quarters of modern dinosaurs on Earth, it is the most
varied and successful group of living creatures with feathers. From tiny
kinglets a few centimeters long to the huge common and Ethiopian ravens, songbirds occur in
every shape and color, with every lifestyle, in every continent save for
Antarctica, in every habitat except for the open oceans of the World. Some, like the
Saint Andrew's vireo of the West Indies, are limited in their distribution,
inhabiting tiny islands. Others, like the North American bobolink and the Arctic
tern, are among the
greatest migrants, whose travels extend among continents. Seed, fruit, insect, and
carrion eaters, as well as hunters of lizards, snakes, mammals, and other birds;
arboreal or terrestrial; from sea level to high alpine summits; from deserts to
rain forests; with plumages ranging from somber blacks, grays, and browns to others that
pass for living rainbows; songbirds of one kind or another can be found almost
everywhere on land where man looks on land. }} |
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