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Birds of Canada (French: oiseaux du Canada) is the fifth series of banknotes of the Canadian dollar issued by the Bank of Canada and was first circulated in 1986 to replace the 1969 Scenes of Canada series. Each note features a bird indigenous to Canada in its design. The banknotes weigh 1 gram with dimensions of 152.40 by 69.85 millimetres (6. ...
Pangalloanserae(fowl) Neoaves. Synonyms. Neornithes Gadow, 1883. Birdsare a group of warm-bloodedvertebratesconstituting the classAves(/ˈeɪviːz/), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the layingof hard-shelledeggs, a high metabolicrate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
White House. Design date. 2003. The United States twenty-dollar bill (US$20) is a denomination of U.S. currency. A portrait of Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president (1829–1837), has been featured on the obverse of the bill since 1928; the White House is featured on the reverse. As of December 2018, the average life of a $20 bill in ...
Thunderbird is a Bolliger and Mabillard Launched Wing Coaster that opened at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana in 2015. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client. The Thunderbird is the cap badge and symbol of the Canadian Forces Military Police since 1968.
The common nightingale is slightly larger than the European robin, at 15–16.5 cm (5.9–6.5 in) length. It is plain brown above except for the reddish tail. It is buff to white below. The sexes are similar. The eastern subspecies ( L. m. golzi) and the Caucasian subspecies ( L. m. africana) have paler upper parts and a stronger face-pattern ...
Origin/etymology. A pic with thousands words. Meaning. Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes ...
A passerine ( / ˈpæsəraɪn /) is any bird of the order Passeriformes ( / ˈpæsərɪfɔːrmiːz /; from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines generally have an anisodactyl arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back ...
Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant mammal , is Kitti's hog-nosed bat , which is 29–34 millimetres ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 inches) in length, 150 mm (6 in) across the wings and 2–2.6 g ...