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BIRDS : THE CLASS AVES Domesti- cation Birds as pests Range Evolu- tionary flightless- ness The nest. Birds B irds are warm - blooded vertebrates whose covering of feathers is the one major characteristic that dis- tinguishes them from ...
BIRDS : THE CLASS AVES Domesti- cation Birds as pests Range Evolu- tionary flightless- ness The nest. Birds B irds are warm - blooded vertebrates whose covering of feathers is the one major characteristic that dis- tinguishes them from ...
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... birds similar to Enaliornis ( Lonchodytes ) , other early flamingo - like birds , and species in the same suborders as gannets , ibises , rails , and shorebirds . Paleocene deposits have yielded the earliest known loons , cormorants ...
... birds similar to Enaliornis ( Lonchodytes ) , other early flamingo - like birds , and species in the same suborders as gannets , ibises , rails , and shorebirds . Paleocene deposits have yielded the earliest known loons , cormorants ...
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... Birds of the USSR : Including Eastern Europe and Central Asia ( 1984 ; originally published in Russian , 1968 ) ; MARK A. BRAZIL and MASAYUKI YABUUCHI , The Birds of Japan ( 1991 ) ; and RODOLPHE MEYER DE SCHAUENSEE et al . , The Birds ...
... Birds of the USSR : Including Eastern Europe and Central Asia ( 1984 ; originally published in Russian , 1968 ) ; MARK A. BRAZIL and MASAYUKI YABUUCHI , The Birds of Japan ( 1991 ) ; and RODOLPHE MEYER DE SCHAUENSEE et al . , The Birds ...
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