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2 unusual facts about Slender-billed Grackle


Lake Pátzcuaro

Two native species have not been observed recently; the Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) has not been seen since 1964 and may be locally extinct, and the endemic Slender-billed Grackle (Quiscalus palustris) is presumed extinct.

Slender-billed Grackle

The species was closely related to the western clade of the Great-tailed Grackle, from which it diverged around 1.2 million years ago.


Amandus Adamson

His Russalka Memorial, dedicated to the 177 lost sailors of the Ironclad warship Russalka, features a bronze angel on a slender column.

Banggai Crow

It was sometimes considered a subspecies of the Slender-billed Crow, but it is actually rather distinct from this bird, resembling an entirely black Piping Crow overall.

Boolcoomatta, Bindarrah and Kalkaroo Stations Important Bird Area

As well as Plains-wanderers, significant bird populations in the IBA include Chirruping Wedgebills, Cinnamon Quail-thrushes, Inland Dotterels, Redthroats and Slender-billed Thornbills.

C. erecta

Commelina erecta, the white mouth dayflower or slender dayflower, a perennial herb species native throughout the Americas

Crepuscule with the Dead Science

Crepuscule with The Dead Science is the third EP from The Dead Science, released in 2006 on Slender Means Society.

Cyperus bipartitus

The name "slender flatsedge" is used but more properly applies to Cyperus gracilis.

Dicksonia

Dicksonia squarrosa, Rough Tree Fern, Slender Tree Fern, New Zealand Tree Fern, Wheki.

Eurogate Zürich

In the 1970s, Luigi Snozzi and Mario Botta had participated in the original competition with a design for a slender bridge-construction over the tracks, but their project was not further developed.

Follow-on

When Graham Dilley joined him at the crease, Botham reportedly said, "Right then, let's have a bit of fun." Botham, with able support from the lower order, went on to make 149 not out, and gave England a slender lead of 129.

Garrison's Gorillas

The four were: Actor (Cesare' Danova) a handsome, resonant-voiced con man; Casino (Rudy Solari), a tough, wiry safe-cracker and mechanic; Goniff (Christopher Cary) a slender, likable Cockney cat burglar; and Chief (Brendon Boone) a rugged, somber American Indian who handled a switchblade like he was born to it.

Ghost shrimp

Caprellidae, amphipods with slender bodies more commonly known as 'skeleton shrimps'.

Hays Inlet

The slender inlet forms the shape of the south-western Redcliffe suburb of Clontarf, and eastern Pine Rivers suburbs of Mango Hill and Griffin.

Hoffmannseggia tenella

Hoffmannseggia tenella is a rare species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name slender rushpea.

Indian Vulture

The Indian Vulture and the White-rumped Vulture, G. bengalensis species have suffered a 99%–97% population decrease in Pakistan and India and between 2000-2007 annual decline rates of this species and the Slender-billed Vulture averaged over 16%.

The birds in the northern part of its range once considered a subspecies are now considered a separate species, the Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris.

Ivar Tengbom

The home of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and known as the place where the Nobel Prize ceremony takes place, the Hall, a light-blue building with a portico with tall, slender polygonal columns with corinthian capitals.

Lance Alworth

His slender build, speed, grace, and leaping ability earned him the nickname "Bambi."

LaVannes C. Squires

At the time of his senior year at Wichita East High School, LaVannes was still very small but a good athlete; he earned the nickname “Felix the Cat” from his peers due to his quickness and slender appearance.

Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo

Places he marked on his chart were Cape da Boa Esperança, Cape False, Cape Agulhas, Cape Infanta, St Sebastian Bay, Cape St Blaize (Cabo de São Bras = Mossel Bay), Ponta Delgada (Point Slender = Robberg), Formosa Bay, Formosa Peak, St Francis Bay, Cabo de Arrecife (Cape Recife), St Lucia (landed there on 13 December 1575, day of the Feast of Santa Lucia),

Marungu highlands

Hyperolius nasicus is a small, slender tree frog with a markedly pointed snout, a very poorly known member of the controversial Hyperolius nasutus group.

Michael Britt

Dubbed the "Flying Pencil" by David Remnick of the Washington Post, as some scouts felt his slender frame was too lean for his height, Britt had a phenomenal freshman season at District of Columbia, averaged 24.3 points and 12.4 rebounds in 16 games with the Firebirds varsity.

Morskie Oko

Beside Mięguszowiecki Summits (including Mięguszowiecki Szczyt Wielki, 2,438 meters), farther away and slightly to the left, is the distinctive, slender Mnich (“Monk,” 2,068 meters).

Nannophrys guentheri

The longer hind limbs and the smaller head give this species a much more slender appearance than the related Nannophrys ceylonensis: the proportions of the fingers are also important differences between the two species.

P. candida

Piperia candida, the whiteflower rein orchid, slender white piperia or white-flowered piperia, an orchid species native to western North America from Alaska to the San Francisco Bay Area

Pseudotemperoceras

Pseudotemperoceras has a slender, orthoconic shell that resembles that of the earlier, Paleozoic, Temperoceras from which it gets its name, although Temperoceras is a geisonoceratid rather than an orthoceratid

Puerto Rican Boa

The Puerto Rican boa (Chilabothrus inornatus) is a species of slender, terrestrial, viviparous boa with a dark brown coloration.

Reginald C. Fuller

His friendship with Leonard Cheshire led to his editing a slender volume providing an insight into Cheshire's spiritual resources during his struggle with the effects of motor neurone disease, entitled Crossing the Finishing Line – Last Thoughts of Leonard Cheshire VC (1998, ISBN 0-85439-527-X, see pp. 7–14, 80).

San Bernardino kangaroo rat

5) The Bureau of Land Management set aside three areas along the Santa Ana River for preservation of federally listed species such as D. m. parvus, the Santa Ana River Woolly Star (Eriastrum densifolium ssp. sanctorum), the Slender-Horned Spineflower, and the California Gnatcatcher.

Sheep moth

The sheep moth has a 5.5-8.5 centimeter wingspan and a relatively slender body and (FW) wings that pink with a yellow streak in the middle and (HW) yellowish with variable black markings with an all-black form near Mount Shasta.

Silvertip

Silvertip shark, a large and slender shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) found at or close to offshore remote island reefs

Slender Man

In 2011, Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the sandbox indie game Minecraft, added a new hostile mob to the game, which he named the "Enderman" when multiple users on Reddit and Google+ commented on the similarity to the Slender Man.

Slender rainbow sardine

The slender rainbow sardine found its way into the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.

Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove

The taxonomy of the Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove is disputed, and some authorities split it into two species: M. amboinensis (Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and M. phasianella (Brown Cuckoo-Dove) of eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south, and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba.

Slender-billed Greenfinch

Its bill, as the name suggests, is longer and thinner than most Carduelis finches.

Slender-billed Gull

The scientific name of this bird commemorates the Italian naturalist Giuseppe Gené.

Stenostomidae

Stenostomidae is also a synonym for Leptotyphlopidae (commonly called Slender Blind Snakes or Thread Snakes).

Stephen Venables

This expedition was recorded in his book A Slender Thread and in Victor Saunders's No Place to Fall.

Sword of the Samurai

Katana, Japanese weapon characterized by distinctive curved, slender, single edged blade, circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate both hands

Teleri

The Teleri were more slender and perhaps slightly shorter on average than the Noldor and Vanyar, though Thingol was recounted as the tallest of all Men and Elves.

Théodore Salomé

Upon her visit to La Trinité in November 1893, Fannie Edgar Thomas, "Church Music Correspondent" for the New York Musical Courier, described M. Salomé, at age 59, as a handsome man "with his fine silver hair, slender, gentle face, pink cheeks, tender mouth and appealing brown eyes, dressed in an easy dark coat and vest, with gray trousers, and no evident personal ambition."

Tschudi's slender opossum

Tschudi's Slender Opossum, Marmosops impavidus, is an opossum species from South America, named after Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi.

Uloborus plumipes

The fine fibres produced are combined by comblike bristles on the hind legs into slender silk threads with a fuzzy texture that are able to trap prey without the use of glue.

Wilcherry Hill

Conditions were set in response to the presence of two threatened species within the project area: the Slender-billed Thornbill and the Malleefowl.

Winnipegoceras

Winnipegoceras, named by Foerste (1922) for fossils found near Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, is known by it large, slender, compressed, strongly curved exogastric shells; long slender body chamber and siphuncle that is slightly removed from the venter which is the outer, longitudinally convex margin.

Zappa confluentus

Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, endemic to New Guinea where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers.


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