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unusual facts about Scaly-breasted Wren-babbler


Scaly-breasted Wren-babbler

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


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.

Arabian Babbler

Starting in the 1970s, Amotz Zahavi observed the babbler at length, giving rise to his theory of signal and its correlative, the handicap principle.

Babbler

Old World babbler, a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds

Blyth's Shrike-babbler

It was formerly considered a subspecies of the White-browed Shrike-babbler.

Bold-striped Tit-Babbler

Call is a loud repeated chonk-chonk-chonk-chonk-chonk somewhat reminiscent of a Common Tailorbird.

Cameroonian Highlands forests

Seven species of birds are strictly endemic: the Bamenda Apalis (Apalis bamendae), Bangwa Forest Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis), White-throated Mountain-babbler (Kupeornis gilberti), Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta), Bannerman's Weaver (Ploceus bannermani), Mount Kupe Bush-shrike (Telophorus kupeensis) and Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani), which is a cultural icon for the Kom people who live in the area.

Clicking Shrike-babbler

It previously was considered a subspecies of the Chestnut-fronted Shrike-babbler.

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.

Lyalintsi

It is derived from the personal name Lyalya, "aunt", the nickname lyalya or lala, itself from Proto-Slavic *l'al'a, "babbler, fool" or from the personal name Lyala, an affectionate form of Vlado (Vladimir, Vladislav).

Micromacronus

The Visayan Miniature Babbler is found on the islands of Samar, Leyte and Biliran in the central Philippines, whereas the Mindanao Miniature Babbler is restricted to Mindanao only.

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.

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.

Pare Mountains

Species in the Pare mountains include the endemic South Pare White-eye, Mountain Buzzard (Buteo oreophilus), Olive Woodpecker, Moustached Green-tinkerbird (Pogoniulus leucomystax) and the African Hill Babbler (Pseudoalcippe abyssinica).

Pionus

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

Pnoepyga

The Taiwan Wren-babbler is endemic to Taiwan, and similarly the Nepal Wren-babbler has a resricted distribution, mostly occurring in Nepal (and also slightly into India).

Scaly

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

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.

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-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.

Scimitar babbler

As with other babbler species, they frequently occur in groups of up to a dozen, and the rain forest species like Indian Scimitar Babbler often occur in the mixed feeding flocks typical of tropical Asian jungle.

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."

Trilling Shrike-babbler

It previously was considered the nominate subspecies of the Chestnut-fronted Shrike-babbler.


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