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unusual facts about tanager-finches



Alexander Wetmore

Several taxa of birds have been named in his honor, including the Cretaceous genus Alexornis and the tanagers Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron and Buthraupis wetmorei.

Black-capped Hemispingus

The Black-capped Hemispingus (Hemispingus atropileus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Black-eared Hemispingus

The Black-eared Hemispingus (Hemispingus melanotis) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Common Waxbill

Nests may be parasitized by the Pin-tailed Whydah which lays its eggs in the nests of estrildid finches.

Contursi Terme

No secure identification of Contursi Terme, where ancient remains confirm a settlement at the confluence of the Tanagro (ancient Tanager) with the Sele, is likely.

Drab Hemispingus

The Drab Hemispingus (Hemispingus xanthophthalmus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Fink

The name Fink is German for finch and is a reference to the name of the Mac OS X core, Darwin; Charles Darwin's study of diversity among finches led him eventually to the concept of evolution.

Firetail

The term firetail is given to the four species of Australian finches belonging to the genus Stagonopleura.

Fleet Finch

Over several years beginning in 1939, a total of 447 Finches were built, nearly all (431) of them for use as elementary trainers in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during the Second World War.

Gough Finch

Traditionally considered a bunting and placed in the family Emberizidae, it is actually neither a bunting nor a true finch, but belongs to a group of finch-like birds or tanager-finches in the family Thraupidae.

Leslie Christidis

In 1985 he required his Ph.D. at the Australian National University where he studied the evolutionary genetics of Australian finches.

Lesser seed-finch

The lesser seed-finches are two species of Thraupids in the genus Oryzoborus.

Oleaginous Hemispingus

The Oleaginous Hemispingus (Hemispingus frontalis) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Orange-browed Hemispingus

The Orange-browed Hemispingus (Hemispingus calophrys) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family that can be found in Bolivia and Peru.

Psittirostrini

It is made up of the thick-billed birds, colloquially known as the Hawaiian finches, that once inhabited all of the Hawaiian Islands.

Puna grassland

Relatively few birds, such as the Darwin's Rhea, Andean Condor, and certain miners and yellow-finches, are frequently found in the vast expanses of puna grasslands, but numerous birds are associated with the highland lakes and marshes that are found in the puna grasslands, for example the Andean Goose, Andean Flamingo, Andean Avocet, Giant Coot, Puna Teal and Diademed Sandpiper-plover.

Robert T. Orr

A study of captive Galapagos finches of the genus Geospiza.

Schiedea verticillata

Schiedea verticillata, known as the Nihoa Carnation, is an endangered species of carnation, endemic to the island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition.

Seven-coloured Tanager

It resembles the overall greener Green-headed Tanager; a species confusingly known as the Seven-coloured Tanager (saĆ­ra-sete-cores) in Portuguese.

Slender-billed Greenfinch

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

Syzygium cumini

In Brazil, where it was introduced from India during Portuguese colonization, it has dispersed spontaneously in the wild in some places, as its fruits are eagerly sought by various native birds such as thrushes, tanagers and the Great Kiskadee.

Tabebuia rosea

Pollination occurs probably by insects, although the flowers are visited by many birds such as tanagers, hummingbirds and orioles.

Tanager Expedition

The Tanager Expedition was a series of five biological surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands conducted in partnership between the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bishop Museum, with the assistance of the U.S. Navy.

Three-striped Hemispingus

The Three-striped Hemispingus (Hemispingus trifasciatus) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.


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