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unusual facts about Pale-billed Woodpecker


Pale-billed Woodpecker

Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica, ISBN 0-8014-9600-4


Adnams Brewery

Lighthouse, a 3.4% bottled traditional pale ale named after Southwold lighthouse; recipe based on an award winning beer that used to be brewed called 'Champion Pale Ale'

Africa Star

The sand of the desert is represented by pale buff, the Royal Navy (and Merchant Navy), British Army, and Royal Air Force are represented by stripes of dark blue, red, and light blue respectively.

Alien Investigations

Investigators examine the Metepec creature found in the Mexican town of Metepec, the Montauk Monster found washed up in Long Island, New York, a mummy with an elongated head found by an anthropologist in the Peruvian Andes and a pale, snub-nosed creature seen by four teenage Panamanian boys.

Antonie Augustus Bruijn

There are four birds species that are named after him: Waigeo Brushturkey (Aepypodius bruijnii), Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii), Torrent-lark (Grallina bruijni) and Pale-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis bruijnii).

Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill

The very thin soils here support populations of one nationally rare species, Cheddar bedstraw (Galium fleurotii) and four nationally scarce species, pale St John's wort (Hypericum montanum), sea storksbill (Erodium maritimum), dwarf mouse-ear (Cerastium pumilum) and spring cinquefoil (Potentilla tabernaemontani).

Bethnal Green tube station

Extensive use is made of pale yellow tiling, originally manufactured by Poole Pottery.

Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway

Interiors were of polished oak, with teak mouldings and the ceilings of the First Class sections were covered in pale green Lincrusta, picked out with gold leaf.

Boaedon capensis

T+Albinos (Tyrosinase positive albinos), also known as caramel albinos are very interesting looking; their body colour is a light, buttery yellow to a pale orange.

Boinka, Victoria

Boinka is listed within the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 as being one of only two places where Pale Myoporum (Myoporum brevipes Benth.), a recumbent or erect shrub of up to 2 metres in height (widespread in South Australia), is known to grow indigenously outside of that location.

BridgePort Brewing Company

Blue Heron Pale Ale, named after Portland’s official city bird (the Great Blue Heron), was first brewed in 1987 as a special release for the Audubon Society of Portland.

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

Catopsilia pyranthe

Pupa: "Much stouter (i.e. than that of Eurema hecabe, and the keel formed by the wing-cases much less pronounced. The normal colour is pale green with a yellow lateral line. We have never found it on any plant except Senna occidentalis. It habitually rests on the upperside along the midrib, like almost all Pierine larvae."

Ceylon Tree Nymph

One account by naturalists Lionel de Nicéville and Manders dating from about 1900 describes the larva as "velvety black with four pairs of long filamentous tentacles" with each segment of its body marked with a pale yellow band.

Charles Kinbote

Mary McCarthy, in her 1962 New Republic essay "A Bolt from the Blue" (in which she classed Pale Fire "one of the great works of art of the century") identified the book's author as Professor V. Botkin.

Deforestation in the United States

Of the 28 forest bird species with habitat exclusively in that forest, Pimm claims four become extinct either wholly or mostly because of habitat loss, the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, and Bachman's Warbler.

Dioptase

In addition, many small, pale-green colored crystals of dioptase have come from the Christmas Mine near Hayden, Arizona.

Elyne Mitchell

Set in the Snowy Mountains area of the Australian Alps around Mount Kosciuszko in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, the Snowy Brumby books recount the life of the pale palomino brumby stallion Thowra from his birth in The Silver Brumby (first published 1958) to Silver Brumby Whirlwind.

G. alba

Gentiana alba, the pale gentian, white gentian or cream gentian, a herbaceous flowering plant species

Gonepteryx cleopatra

It is a sexually dimorphic species - the female has pale yellow or greenish wings, the male is darker yellow with an orange patch on the forewing.

Houghton, Hampshire

Some of the remains of the deer park's boundary embankments (or pale) can still be seen near Black Lake Farm as you cross the valley on foot on the Clarendon Way.

Isabella Stewart Gardner

In the Titian Room, Titian's magnificent painting of Europa (1561–1562) hangs above a piece of pale green silk, which had been cut from one of Isabella Stewart Gardner's gowns designed by Charles Frederick Worth.

James Shulman

His dissertation, which examined how heroes made decisions in the complex world of Renaissance epic poetry, received the John Addison Porter Prize in 1993 and forms the basis of The Pale Cast of Thought: Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic (University of Delaware Press, 1998).

Jocotoco Antpitta

Its closest relative appears to be the Chestnut-naped Antpitta and the Pale-billed Antpitta, with which it forms a group of antpittas with uniform breast plumage and smoky-grey flanks.

Karamu

Coprosma lucida, sometimes called Shining Karamu, and distinguished by its pale bark

La Valle Agordina

We can also see other mountains outside of the municipality from the village: Framont (northwest, Agordo), Agner (west, Agordo), Pale di San Lucano (west-northwest, Taibon Agordino), Monti del Sole (like Sun mountains, southwest, Gosaldo), Imperina (south-southwest, Rivamonte Agordino).

Llandovery Group

The Tarannon group is represented by the Rhayader Pale Shales in Powys; in the Moffat Silurian belt in south Scotland by a thick development, including the Hawick rocks and Ardwell Beds, and the Queensberry Group or Gala; in the Girvan area, by the Drumyork Flags, Bargany Group and Penkill Group; and in Ireland by the Treveshilly Shales of Strangford Lough, and the shales of Salterstown, Co.

Macrosoma hedylaria

The pale chestnut brown color of the apex helps to distinguish M. hedylaria from M. conifera.

Mason Spencer

In 1932, Spencer, a sportsman armed with a hunting permit, shot a rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker along the Tensas River on a large tract of swamp forest land owned by the Singer Sewing Company.

Monsieur Stigmonus

Ryan Sook provided the look of Stigmonus, a pale white humanoid with a black goatee, yin/yang encased on his forehead, and dressed in the high fashion of the 18th century.

Nicholas Ribic

The May 1995 worldwide television and newspapers coverage showed the shocking photo of a distraught Capt. Rechner chained to a lightning rod at an ammunition bunker in the Bosnian city of Pale.

Organ pipe mud dauber

They are fairly large wasps, shiny black with pale hind tarsi.

Pale Green Triangle

Graphium eurypylus, a swallowtail butterfly commonly known as the Great Jay or Pale Green Triangle

Graphium evemon, a sister species commonly known as the Lesser Jay but sometimes also referred to as the Pale Green Triangle

Pale Shelter

The title of the song is a reference to "Pale Shelter Scene", a 1941 drawing by British sculptor Henry Moore.

Pale-throated sloth

Green algae live mutualistically between the microscopic scales on the surface of the guard hairs, giving the sloth a somewhat greenish appearance that serves as camouflage.

Pale-winged Trumpeter

Genetic evidence suggests the closest relative of ochroptera is the Grey-winged Trumpeter, leading some to treat it as a separate species, the Ochre-winged Trumpeter (P. ochroptera).

Plumbogummite

Material from the Siglio XX Mine, Llallagua, Bolivia, is an unusual pale yellow color, rather than the more common blue or green, forming crusts on quartz and cassiterite, and enclosing crude octahedral jeanbandyite crystals with orange colored shells of plumbogummite.

Porthidium

All species have a color pattern that usually consists of a brown or gray ground color, overlaid with a series of dark paraventral blotches that are separated by a pale and narrow vertebral stripe.

Rosa Iceberg

'Blushing Pink Iceberg' - A cultivar originating from Lilia Weatherly's garden in Tasmania in 1994 with white flowers flushed with pale pink.

Silvan Elves

In the 1977 animated adaption of The Hobbit, The Wood Elves are depicted as having fair hair and pale lavender skin, with clothing predominantly brown and olive coloured garb.

Sir John Oldcastle

The play offers a comic character, Sir John of Wrotham, a pale imitation of Falstaff, who interacts with a disguised Henry V (III,iv) much as in Shakespeare's plays.

St Paul's Church, Bristol

It still boasts an ornate Georgian plaster ceiling, stone columns and a wealth of decorative stained glass, but has now been equipped with aerial and trapeze equipment and a pale Maple wood sprung dance floor.

The Well's on Fire

Les Fradkin covered "Fellow Travellers" as part of a "Beyond The Pale" Compilation.

Threnetes

Pale-tailed Barbthroat, Threnetes leucurus (formerly in T. niger)

Tim Gallagher

As one of the first three searchers to report seeing and identifying the species, he played an instrumental role in the 2004/2005 Arkansas reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

Veldin Karić

According to Karić, he had been arrested by the JNA in 1992 and was taken to Pale, the Serbian stronghold during the Siege of Sarajevo, where he was delivered as a prisoner to Serbian paramilitary forces.

VSOP

Very Special Old Pale or Very Superior Old Pale, a grade of cognac (brandy)

White tuna

Albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga - the pale-fleshed tuna favoured by the canning industry, also known as shiro maguro, bin-naga maguro, or bincho maguro

Xylophanes katharinae

It is intermediate in forewing shape between Xylophanes damocrita and Xylophanes josephinae, but distinguishable from both by the much broader pale orange median band on the hindwing upperside.


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