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| x North Carolina |
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North Carolina ( /ˌnɔrθ kærəˈlaɪnə/ (help·info)) is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North...
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| x Bald Eagle |
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The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America that is most recognizable as the national bird and symbol of the United States of America. This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the...
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| x Peregrine Falcon |
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The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine, and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back,...
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| x Anhinga |
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The Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), sometimes called Snakebird, Darter, American Darter, or Water Turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word "anhinga" comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird....
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| x Northern Harrier |
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The Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) or Northern Harrier (in North America) is a bird of prey. It breeds throughout the northern parts of the northern hemisphere in Canada and the northernmost USA, and in northern Eurasia. This species is polytypic,...
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| x Loggerhead Shrike |
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The Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) is a passerine bird. It is the only member of the shrike family endemic to North America; the related Northern Shrike (L. excubitor) occurs north of its range but also in the Palearctic.
The bird has a...
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| x American White Pelican |
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The American White Pelican or Rough-billed Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a large aquatic bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, up to Central America, in winter.
The...
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| x American Bittern |
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The American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.
It is a large, chunky, brown bird, very similar to the Eurasian Great Bittern, Botaurus stellaris. It is 59–70 cm (23-27 inches) in length, with a 95–115 cm ...
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| x Glossy Ibis |
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The Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.
This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean...
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| x Common Tern |
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The Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution breeding in temperate and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering...
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| x Barn Owl |
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The Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as Common Barn Owl, to distinguish it from other species in the barn-owl family Tytonidae. These form one of...
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| x Yellow-crowned Night Heron |
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The Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea, formerly placed in the genus Nycticorax), also called the American Night Heron or squawk, is a fairly small heron, similar in appearance to the Black-crowned Night Heron. It is found throughout a...
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| x Snowy Egret |
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The Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) is a small white heron. It is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World Little Egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas.
Adults are typically 61 centimetres (24 in) long and weigh 375 grams ...
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| x Piping Plover |
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The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye,...
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| x Caspian Tern |
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The Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia, formerly Sterna caspia; syn. Hydroprogne tschegrava) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic, with no subspecies accepted. In New...
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| x Short-eared Owl |
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The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is a species of typical owl (family Strigidae). Owls belonging to genus Asio are known as the eared owls, as they have tufts of feathers resembling mammalian ears. These "ear" tufts may or may not be visible. Asio...
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| x Black-billed Cuckoo |
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The Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, is a cuckoo.
Adults have a long brown tail and a black bill. The head and upper parts are brown and the underparts are white. There is a red ring around the eye. Juveniles are drabber, and the eye...
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| x Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
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The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus varius, is a medium-sized woodpecker.
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is part of the New World sapsucker genus Sphyrapicus which is within the woodpecker family Picidae The genus also includes the Red-naped...
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| x Northern Saw-whet Owl |
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The Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) is a miniature owl native to North America.
Adults are 18 cm long with a 43 cm wingspan. The Northern Saw-Whet Owl has a round, light, grey face with brown streaks; they also have a dark beak and yellow...
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| x Gull-billed Tern |
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The Gull-billed Tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, formerly Sterna nilotica (Bridge et al., 2005), is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae.
It breeds in warmer parts of the world in southern Europe (and a very small isolated population in northern...
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| x Sharp-shinned Hawk |
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The Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) is a small hawk. In fact, "sharp-shins" are the smallest to reside in USA and Canada, though some Neotropical species are smaller (notably the aptly named Tiny Hawk). The taxonomy is far from resolved,...
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| x Cooper's Hawk |
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) is a medium-sized hawk native to the North American continent and found from Canada to Mexico. As in many birds of prey, the male is smaller than the female. The Birds found east of the Mississippi River tend to be...
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| x American Kestrel |
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The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) is a small falcon. This bird was (and sometimes still is) colloquially known in North America as the "Sparrow Hawk". This name is misleading because it implies a connection with the Eurasian Sparrowhawk...
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| x Red Crossbill |
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The Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It breeds in the spruce forests of North America, where it is known as Red Crossbill, as well as Europe and Asia; some populations (different...
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| x Pine Siskin |
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The Pine Siskin, Carduelis pinus, is a small finch.
Adults are brown on the upperparts and pale on the underparts, with heavy streaking throughout. They have a short forked tail. They have yellow patches in their wings and tail, not always visible;...
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| x Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
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The Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus, is a large seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae.
The adult is 19 cm (7.5 in) long and weighs 47 g (1.7 oz). It has dark upperparts, white underparts and a large pale bill. The...
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| x Bobolink |
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The Bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, is a small New World blackbird and the only member of genus Dolichonyx.
Adults are 16–18 cm (6–8 in) long with short finch-like bills. Adult males are mostly black, although they do display creamy napes, and...
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| x Brown Creeper |
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The Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), also known as the American Tree Creeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae.
Adults are brown on the upperparts with light spotting, resembling a piece of...
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| x Black-capped Chickadee |
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The Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, common songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
Though often placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that...
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| x Savannah Sparrow |
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The Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) is a small American sparrow. It is the only widely accepted member of the genus Passerculus. Recent comparison of mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 and 3 sequences indicates that the Ipswich Sparrow,...
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| x Lark Sparrow |
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The Lark Sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, is a fairly large sparrow. It is the only member of the genus Chondestes.
This passerine bird breeds in southern Canada, much of the USA, and northern Mexico. It is much less common in the east, where its...
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| x Alder Flycatcher |
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The Alder Flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
Adults have olive-brown upperparts, browner on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars, a small...
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| x Magnolia Warbler |
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The Magnolia Warbler, Dendroica magnolia , is a New World warbler. It breeds across most of Canada as well as New England and the Great Lakes region of the U.S.
It is migratory, wintering in Central America. This species is a very rare vagrant to...
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| x Willow Flycatcher |
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The Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
Adults have brown-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have an indistinct white eye ring, white wing...
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| x Golden-winged Warbler |
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The Golden-winged Warbler, Vermivora chrysoptera, is a New World warbler, 11.6 cm long and weighing 8.5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southeastern Canada and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, but in the south it is being...
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| x Blue-winged Warbler |
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The Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora pinus, is a fairly common New World warbler, 11.5 cm long and weighing 8.5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, where it is replacing the...
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| x Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow |
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The Saltmarsh Sparrow, Ammodramus caudacutus, is a small sparrow. At one time, this bird and the Nelson's Sparrow were thought to be a single species, the Sharp-tailed Sparrow. Because of this, the species was briefly known as "Saltmarsh Sharp...
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| x Grasshopper Sparrow |
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The Grasshopper Sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum, is a small sparrow. The Ammodramus genus of 11 species inhabit grasslands and marshes.
Adults have upperparts streaked with brown, grey, black and white; they have a light brown breast, a white belly...
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| x Vesper Sparrow |
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The Vesper Sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus, is a medium-sized sparrow. It is the only member of the genus Pooecetes (Baird 1858).
Adults have light brown upperparts and light underparts, both with darker streaking. They have a white eye ring and a long...
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| x Henslow's Sparrow |
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The Henslow's Sparrow, Ammodramus henslowii, is a small American sparrow.
Adults have streaked brown upperparts with a light brown breast with streaks, a white belly and a white throat. They have a pale stripe on the crown with a dark stripe on each...
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| x Cerulean Warbler |
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The Cerulean Warbler, Dendroica cerulea, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
Adult males have pale cerulean blue upperparts and white underparts with a black necklace across the breast; they also have black streaks on the back and...
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| x Black-necked Stilt |
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The Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as...
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| x Yellow Rail |
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The Yellow Rail, Coturnicops noveboracensis, is a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae.
Adults have brown upperparts streaked with black, a yellowish-brown breast, a light belly and barred flanks. The short thick dark bill turns yellow in males...
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| x King Rail |
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The King Rail, Rallus elegans, is a waterbird, the largest North American rail.
Distinct features are a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on the face and breast with a dark brown cap. They...
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| x Dickcissel |
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The Dickcissel, Spiza americana, is a small American seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. It is the only member of the genus Spiza, though some sources list another supposedly extinct species (see below). In older works, it is often placed...
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| x Wood Stork |
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The Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large American wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It was formerly called the "Wood Ibis", though it is not really an ibis.
The adult is a large bird 83-115 cm (33-45 in) tall and 140-180 cm (58-71...
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| x Tricolored Heron |
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The Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) formerly known in North America as the Louisiana Heron, is a small heron. It is a resident breeder from the Gulf states of the USA and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central...
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| x Little Blue Heron |
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The Little Blue Heron, Egretta caerulea, is a small heron. It breeds from the Gulf states of the USA through Central America and the Caribbean south to Peru and Uruguay. It is a resident breeder in most of its range, but some northern breeders...
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| x Wilson's Plover |
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The Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) is a small plover.
Wilson's Plover is a coastal wader which breeds on both coasts of the Americas from the equator northwards. Its range extends north to include much of the U.S. eastern coast, and the west...
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| x Red-cockaded Woodpecker |
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About the size of the Northern Cardinal, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) is approximately 8.5 in. (20-23 cm) long, with a wingspan of about 14 in. (36 cm.) and a weight of about 1.5 ounces. Its back is barred with black and white...
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| x Least Bittern |
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The Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) is a small wading bird, the smallest heron found in the Americas.
This bird's underparts and throat are white with light brown streaks. Their face and the sides of the neck are light brown; they have yellow eyes...
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| x Worm-eating Warbler |
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The Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus) is a small New World warbler. It is the only species classified in the genus Helmitheros.
It is 13 cm long and weighs 13 g. It is relatively plain with olive-brown upperparts and light-coloured...
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| x Black Rail |
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The Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) is a mouse-sized member of the Rallidae family of birds. It is found in scattered parts of North America and the Pacific region of South America, usually in coastal salt marshes but also in some freshwater...
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| x American Oystercatcher |
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The American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus), occasionally called the American Pied Oystercatcher, is a member of family Haematopodidae. The bird is uniquely marked by its black and white body and a long, thick orange beak. This shorebird is...
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| x Swainson's Warbler |
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Swainson's Warbler, Limnothlypis swainsonii, is a small species of New World warbler. It is monotypic, the only member of the genus Limnothlypis.
A small and rather non-descript species of New World warbler, Swainson's Warblers will grow to about 5...
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| x Mississippi Kite |
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The Mississippi Kite, Ictinia mississippiensis, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is 12 to 14 inches (30–36 cm) beak to tail and has a wingspan averaging 3 feet (91 cm). Adults are gray with darker gray on their tail feathers...
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| x Black Skimmer |
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The Black Skimmer, Rynchops niger, is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and...
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| x Least Tern |
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The Least Tern (Sternula antillarum, formerly Sterna antillarum) is a species of tern that breeds in North America and locally in northern South America. It is closely related to, and was formerly often considered conspecific with, the Little Tern...
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| x Bachman's Sparrow |
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Bachman's Sparrow, Aimophila aestivalis, is a small American sparrow that is endemic to the southeastern United States. This species was named in honor of Reverend John Bachman.
Adults have rufous brown upperparts and crown with grey and black...
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