A.Fun facts about the regent honeyeaterB.A rare bird is "forgetting" its songC.Looking for rare birds in the wild 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 (1)细节理解题。根据but since the 1950s,it has lost about 90% of its habitat(栖息地).(但是自20世纪50年代以来,它已经失去了大约90%的栖息地...
The development of improved field glasses was instead the major catalyst for the reaction against shooting birds for collection. Field glasses introduced around 1900 were an improvement upon opera glasses, such as those Florence Merriam Bailey wrote about in Birds through an Opera Glass, which helped...
from which Professor Richard Owen drew up a wonderfully correct idea of the bird. Almost at the same time the Rev. Mr. Colenso described in the Tasmanian Journal Moa-bones as the remains of gigantic birds. These facts excited interest and caused fresh researches, in consequence of which the ...
A Romance founded partly on historical Facts. The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box...
Even though these blooms have been around since before biblical times, there has been increased public awareness of the negative impacts of these blooms to marine resources -- such as strandings and deaths of marine mammals, birds, and sea turtles. In addition, scientists have det...
A Romance founded partly on historical Facts. The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box...
s skin cells. It is uncommon in wild animals because it makes them stand out from the rest of their species as a target. But itdoes make for an interesting creature to look at, such as this adorable white giraffe Omo, which was recently spotted in Tanzania. Specifically, in birds, the...
Fine. $850 From British naturalist Henry Walter Bates, best known for the scientific exploration of the Amazon that he undertook with his friend Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) beginning in 1848.The purpose of the voyage was in part to "gather facts towards solving the problem of the ...
a murmuration of starlings perform their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert. The dance creates what appear to be tight, transforming shapes as birds move virtually in sync wit one another, giving the impression of one cohesive,...
"I shall conclude this account with what was communicated to me by the late Mr.Ashton Blackburne, from his own observations, or those of his friends, who were eye-witnesses to the wondrous facts related of these birds" (Arctic Zoology, II, p. 324;Ashton's notes on the passenger pigeon,...