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unusual facts about Silky-flycatcher


Silky-flycatcher

They were formerly lumped with waxwings and Hypocolius in the family Bombycillidae, and they are listed in that family by the Sibley-Monroe checklist.


AAC Middle Wallop

HMS Flycatcher the HQ for the Mobile Naval Air Base organization then moved in from RNAS Ludham, which reverted to RAF use.

Acadian Flycatcher

The present-day "Acadian Flycatcher" is not found in Acadia.

Annobón Paradise Flycatcher

Some authorities, notably the African Bird Club treat Annobón Paradise Flycatcher as a subspecies of Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher T.

Australian Owlet-nightjar

The Australian Owlet-nightjar feeds at night by diving from perches and snatching insects from the air, ground or off trunks and branches, in the manner of a flycatcher.

Beach pea

Lathyrus littoralis, a species of wild pea known by the common name silky beach pea.

Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher

The Blue-Throated Flycatcher is found much of the Indian Subcontinent, all through the Himalayas, the plains and Western Ghats of India in the cold months, and also extends eastwards into Bangladesh, and to Arakan and the Tenasserim Hills in Myanmar.

Citrine Canary-flycatcher

The Citrine Canary-flycatcher (Culicicapa helianthea) is a species of bird in the Stenostiridae family.

Clothing in ancient Rome

A rare luxury cloth with a beautiful golden sheen, known as sea silk, was made from the long silky filaments or byssus produced by Pinna nobilis, a large Mediterranean seashell.

Connecticut shade tobacco

The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.

Death of Marvin Gaye

In 1989, soul band Frankie Beverly & Maze produced the tribute song, "Silky Soul," taking its melody from "What's Going On." The song featured Nona Gaye in the video and later peaked at #5 on the R&B chart.

E. nivea

Eremophila nivea, the silky eremophila, a shrub species native to Western Australia

Ethmia pyrausta

Larva live in a thin silky spin between the leaves and flowers of Thalictrum aquilegiifolium, Thalictrum simplex and Thalictrum flavum.

Fiscal Flycatcher

The Fiscal Flycatcher is larger than the male Collared Flycatcher, which has a white collar and lacks white wing panels.

G. robusta

Grevillea robusta, the southern silky oak, silky-oak or Australian Silver-oak, a tree species native of eastern coastal Australia

Inocybe geophylla

The fruiting body is a small all-white or cream mushroom with a fibrous silky umbonate cap and adnexed gills.

Japanese Paradise Flycatcher

The Japanese Paradise-flycatcher is similar in appearance to the Asian Paradise Flycatcher but slightly smaller.

Narcissus Flycatcher

F. (n.) elisae, increasingly separated as Chinese Flycatcher or Green-backed Flycatcher (Ficedula elisae, Weigold, 1922), breeding endemic to northeast China, wintering south to Vietnam and Malaysia, breeding males lack a bold supercilium, have an olive-green crown, and mantle instead of black, and lemon-yellow underparts

Paperbark Flycatcher

In Australia the Paperbark Flycatcher inhabits tropical eucalypt woodlands, paperbark woodlands and dry riverine woodlands.

Pavonine Cuckoo

The details of its breeding biology are little known except for a short list of known host species which incliudes Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant, Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher, Eared Pygmy Tyrant and Plain Antvireo.

Silky

Silkie, a variety of chicken believed to have originated in eastern Asia

Silky shark

A scientific description of the silky shark was first published by the German biologists Johannes Müller and Jakob Henle under the name Carcharias (Prionodon) falciformis, in their 1839 Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen.

Sony Ericsson W910i

The W910i is available in six different colors which have been advertised as "Hearty Red", "Noble Black", "Havana Bronze", "Prime Silver", "Lipstick Pink" and "Silky White".

Southern Emu-wren

It described as the "Soft-tailed Flycatcher", native name Mur-re-a-nera when painted between 1788 and 1797 by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter.

Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

The Spotted Tody-Flycatcher is a bird of the Amazon Basin and in the east the neighboring Araguaia River of the Araguaia-Tocantins River drainage.

Thomas Stewart Traill

Audubon named the Traill's Flycatcher after him, which at one time referred to a species which included both the Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) and the Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum).

Types of cotton

Brazilian cotton is a perennial cotton with long, silky fibers.

Undulopsychopsis

The genus name Undulopsychopsis was coined by the researchers as a combination of the silky lacewing type genus Psychopsis and the Late Latin word undula meaning "small wave" which is in reference to the distinctly wavy nature of the wing margins.

White-tailed Blue Flycatcher

The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher (Elminia albicauda) is a species of bird in the Stenostiridae family.

Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher

The range of the Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is mainly in the southern Amazon Basin, and in the east limited by the Amazon River; in the southeast, its range extends eastward including Ilha de Marajo and the last downstream region of only the Tocantins River, of the Araguaia-Tocantins River system.


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