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8 unusual facts about Scaly


Orangchon River estuary Important Bird Area

Birds for which the site is significant include Swan Geese, Bean Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Scaly-sided Mergansers, White-naped Cranes, Red-crowned Cranes and Dunlins.

Pionus

Scaly-headed Parrot (or Scaly-headed Pionus, Maximilian's Pionus, Maximilian's Parrot), Pionus maximiliani

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Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus), a bird species found in woodland in eastern Australia

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

This lorikeet is common in most timbered areas of Eastern Australia from Bamaga, the tip of North Queensland, south to Illawarra district on the New South Wales south coast; also on some offshore islands.

Scaly-breasted Thrasher

:Allenia redirects here. It is also a junior synonym of the plant genus Micrantheum.

Scaly-breasted Wren-babbler

The Taiwan Wren-babbler was once treated as a subspecies of this species.

Scaly-tailed possum

The possum has a limited range and is found in high rainfall coastal regions of the north Kimberley between Yampi Sound and Kalumburu, populations also inhabit Bigge Island and Boongaree Island.

Sikhote-Alin

In 2001, UNESCO placed Sikhote-Alin onto the World Heritage List, citing its importance for "the survival of endangered species such as the scaly-sided (Chinese) merganser, Blakiston’s fish-owl and the Amur tiger."


Anhydrite

A peculiar variety occurring as contorted concretionary masses is known as tripe-stone, and a scaly granular variety, from Volpino, near Bergamo, in Lombardy, as vulpinite; the latter is cut and polished for ornamental purposes.

High-spined commensal hydroid

High-spined commensal hydroids grow as a fuzzy-looking orange coat usually on the shell of a marine snail, the scaly dogwhelk Nucella squamosa.

Nandankanan Zoological Park

In addition, the divisional forest officer of Deogarh captured a pangolin (scaly ant-eater) and two porcupines, and the divisional forest officer of Puri captured a pair of wild boars and a Python.

Scaly whipray

The scaly whipray (Himantura imbricata) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific oceans from the Red Sea and Mauritius to Indonesia.


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