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2 unusual facts about Golden-cheeked Warbler


Golden-cheeked Warbler

Susan Wittig Albert uses the golden-cheeked warbler as a plot device in her 1992 novel Thyme of Death.

The Golden-cheeked Warbler also known as the gold finch of Texas(Setophaga chrysoparia) is an endangered species of bird that breeds in Central Texas, from Palo Pinto County southwestward along the eastern and southern edge of the Edwards Plateau to Kinney County.


1994 LSU Tigers football team

Hallman was named LSU's coach in November 1990 after leading the Golden Eagles to 26 victories over three seasons, mostly on the strength of future Super Bowl winning quarterback Brett Favre.

2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

Andreas Keller

The former striker and goalgetter is related to German female hockey star Natascha Keller, who won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics; he is her older brother.

B Communications

B Communications functions as a holding company of Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd. It is a subsidiary of Internet Gold, namely Internet Gold Golden Lines, itself a subsidiary of Eurocom Communications Ltd., owned by Shaul Elovitch.

Ben Barenholtz

He supported the Coen brothers directorial debut through several titles such as, Blood Simple, Barton Fink (Awarded at the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm & Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award), and Miller's crossing (San Sebastián International Film's Best Director award).

Bet Lynch

In March 2010 it was reported on Digital Spy that Bet was set to make a comeback in an attempt by the newly appointed Phil Collinson producer to try to restore the show to its 'golden days'.

Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve

The lowveld woodlands harbour purple-crested lourie, emerald cuckoo, red-backed mannikin, golden-tailed woodpecker, gorgeous bushshrike, white-faced owl and a number of raptors like white-backed vulture, gymnogene, black-chested snake eagle, Wahlberg's eagle and long-crested Eagle.

Cathay Organisation

Cathay distributed Golden Harvest films and when Jurong Drive-In screened Bruce Lee’s Big Boss, the line-up of cars was so long that many got out and walked.

Charles Henry Jeens

About 1860 he became associated with Macmillan & Co., for whose Golden Treasury series and other publications he produced many vignettes, and portraits including a series of Scientific Worthies in Nature.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Constantinos Coconis

Constantinos (Ted) Coconis is an American illustrator who illustrated many children's books, including the 1971 Newbery Award-winning The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars, and The Golden God, Apollo by Doris Gates.

Dartmoor

Widgery Cross – granite cross atop Brat Tor, memorial erected by Dartmoor artist William Widgery to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887

David Feldshuh

Feldshuh's work also includes the 1994 documentary Susceptible to Kindness, which won a CINE Golden Eagle Award and an Intercom Gold Plaque.

Dorados Fuerza UACH

The team has a loyal base of fans, which is usually students, among them is the Barra, "La Impuntal" a group of faithful followers of the golden team, composed of about 50 members and have been supporting the team since its first home game and have emerged as major force encouraging Dorados UACH.

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

Geraldine Walther

Geraldine Walther’s recordings include Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik and Der Schwanendreher with the San Francisco Symphony (both on London/Decca), Paul Chihara's Golden Slumbers with the San Francisco Chamber Singers (Albany), and Lou Harrison's Threnody (New Albion).

Golden billion

According to Sergey Kara-Murza, the golden billion consumes the lion's share of all resources on the planet.

Golden mean

Golden ratio, a specific mathematical ratio (sometimes called golden mean)

Golden Miller

After many years Golden Miller was bought and renamed Tellings-Golden Miller.

Golden Square, Victoria

Leading AFL player manager Ricky Nixon also started his playing career at Golden Square before playing VFL football with Carlton, St Kilda and Hawthorn.

Golden Stool

Such seats were traditionally symbolic of a chieftain's leadership, but the Golden Stool is believed to house the spirit of the Asante nation—living, dead and yet to be born.

Golden-headed lion tamarin

IBAMA asked Jeremy Mallinson to form and become chair of an IRMC for the golden-headed lion tamarin.

Gustaf Adolf Neumann

Neumann has been "decorated" with the title of "professor" and the "great golden sign of honor for accomplishments for the state of lower Austria" ("given" by Erwin Pröll ?).

Healing the Wounds

Since Healing the Wounds' foundation, the charity campaigned to raise funds to purchase and maintain a convalescent home based at Golden Grove Mansion in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.

Howard Thurston

Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3), concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.

IJzertoren

The museum houses the large painting The Golden Canvass of Flanders (“Het Gulden Doek van Vlaanderen”) by Dutch-born Belgian painter Henry Luyten.

Jack Winerock

He has recorded the Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington's children) for the Musical Heritage Society and the Concerto for Piano and Winds by Igor Stravinsky for Golden Crest Records.

Lakeshore Catholic High School

In addition to this the Lakeshore Catholic Concert and Jazz bands are always ranked highly at festivals and competitions, the most recent of which is the attaining of a Gold level Standing in the regional Golden Horseshoe Festival and A Silver standing at the National MusicFest Canada Competition.

Legend of Saint Ursula

The banners over the tower, red-white with three golden crowns, are those of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, the main Venetian enemy during Carpaccio's life.

Liam McMahon

The film premiered in Cannes 2008, where it opened the official sidebar section, Un Certain Regard and would go on to win the Golden Camera award (Camera d'or).

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Marcelo Figueras

Cartagena Film Festival: Golden India Catalina Award; Best Screenplay for Kamchatka, 2003.

Monk Boudreaux

Monk Boudreaux (born Joseph Pierre Boudreaux; 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is the Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe.

Nathaniel D. Mann

"Climb de Golden Fence : (oh my! wicked piccaninny)", lyrics by Hattie Starr, M. Witmark & Sons, 1895, interpolated into a production of C.W. Taylor's 1852 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Nation Media Group

The Daily Nation and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, are currently celebrating their 50th anniversaries, branded by the Nation Media Group as 50 Golden Years.

Native Sons of the Golden West

James W. Marshall Monument Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Coloma: In 1886, the members of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Placerville Parlor #9 felt that the "Discoverer of Gold" deserved a monument to mark his final resting place.

New York Golden Gloves

Named for the small golden gloves given out to the winners of each weight category, the New York Golden Gloves continued for decades under the sponsorship of the New York Daily News.

Richard Alf

The first convention, known San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Con, which was held at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego in 1970, was co-chaired by Alf.

River of the Golden Ibis

River of the Golden Ibis is a book about the Hillsborough River in Florida by Gloria Jahoda.

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third book in a series of collections of re-told fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Rusty-breasted Whistler

It is the westernmost member of the Golden Whistler group, being bordered to the east by the Black-chinned and Yellow-throated Whistlers, and to the south by the Australian Golden Whistler.

Seal of Colorado

By statute, the seal of the state is two and one-half inches in diameter with the following devices inscribed thereon: At the top is the Eye of Providence or 'All Seeing Eye' within a triangle, from which golden rays radiate on two sides.

Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The golden age of Serbs in the early Middle Ages comes with Prince Časlav Klonimirović (r. 927-960), who managed to include all former territories; He concluded a voluntary confederation with the local chiefs of Bosnia that brought them out of Venetian-Croatia's control.

Singapore Polytechnic

Tanya Chua - 3-time Best Female Vocalist Golden Melody Award-winning singer-songwriter

T. aureus

Teinopalpus aureus, the golden kaiserihind, a butterfly species found in China and possibly Vietnam

The Tibetan Dog

In this film, a young boy named Tenzing leaves for Tibet after his mother passes away to live with his Father in the prairies and encounters a true friend in form of a golden Tibetan Mastiff.

William Bemister

A 58-minute version of the film was later telecast on PBS in the United States for which Bemister won the 1981 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism on U.S. Network Television and the 1982 CINE Golden Eagle Award.

Wynn Vale, South Australia

On Wynn Vale's northern border, in Golden Grove, are Gleeson College, Pedare Christian College and Golden Grove High School, linked together in a complex that also includes the Golden Grove Recreation and Arts Centre.

Yellow-throated Whistler

Among the members of the Golden Whistler group, the Yellow-throated Whistler is bordered to the north by the Black-chinned Whistler, to the west by the Rusty-breasted Whistler, and to the south by the Australian Golden Whistler.


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