КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «TICK-BIRD»
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Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
(ESTT 1956) great tick-bird great tick-bird n Crotophaga major, a bird, 42.5 cm (
17′′) long. Glossy bluish black; long tail; massive bill with high ridge on lower
half of upper beak giving a broken-nosed effect. Excitable and usu. found in ...
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Reid's Read-Alouds: Selections for Children and Teens
He finally heads to the cellar to a big surprise. Delaney, Michael. Birdbrain Amos.
Philomel, 2002. 153 p. Gr. K–4. A hippopotamus named Amos advertises for a “
tick bird” and hires one named Kumba. The two have a slight language barrier.
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Studio Affairs: My Life as a Film Director
"His tick bird is too important to him. They have an agreement between them. The
tick bird gets food and keeps the croc's teeth clean. Many animals have their tick
birds: the elephant can't extract bugs from its ears, but its tick bird can. You can ...
When Amos the hippopotamus advertises for a bird to help him with his bug problem, the tick bird who answers his ad creates a different set of problems for him by building a nest on Amos's head.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... heron Tick bird BT Bubulcus Cattle family USE Cattell family Cattle grids USE
Cattle guards Cattle grubs USE Warble flies Cattle guards [TF277] UF Cattle
grids Grids, Cattle Guards, Cattle Roads—Cattle guards BT Fences ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2006
Water buffalo and tick bird. Tick birds eat ticks from the water buffalo, getting food
while the animal gets rid of ticks (Figure 1-2). 12 The birds also warn of danger by
uttering shrill cries and jumping up and down. Facultative mutualism: Either ...
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Building Vocabulary From Word Roots Student Book Lv 6 (4c): ...
The rhinoceros is symbiotic with a bird named the "oxpecker.” Sometimes called
a ”tick bird," the little bird rides happily on the back of this huge animal, keeping it
alive by eating ticks off its hide. Since ticks are the only food these birds can eat, ...
Timothy V. Rasinski, 2007
She has no memory of this graying overweight man, but Maggie says to her, "Yes
, you do remember: he always played the second spear holder, and in Richard II
he spat over the front of the stage, and he was probably a Tick Bird." She has ...
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Pathology of Australian Native Wildlife
... experimentally infected with Rickettsia rickettsii. Although infected birds
remained asymptomatic it was concluded that such birds had the potential to
disseminate infection via a tick–bird–tick, or tick–bird–tick–mammal cycle (
Lundgren et al.
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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers: & Other Unusual Relationships
... 108–9, 111, 113–14 Orchidaceae, 111 Trichoceros antennifera, 112 oriole,
100 osha (bear root), 133, 136–37 osprey, 101 ostrich, 150 owl, 44, 105
oxpecker (“tick-bird”), 63–64 oystercatcher, 12 Pacific yew (tree), 127 palm (tree),
116, 118, ...
