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Luo Biological Dictionary
... yellow-coloured - Osogo Waxbill, crimson-rumped - Oyundi Waxbill - Oyundi
Waxbill. yellow-billed - Oyundi Widow-bird, fan-tailed - Oseng' Widow-bird,
Jackson's - Oseng' Widow-bird, long-tailed - Oseng' Widow-bird, red-coloured -
Oseng' ...
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Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World
A further note on the Purple Widow-bird. The Ostrich, 38: 54–55. Wiprachtiger, P.
1987. Bastard zwischen Rauch- und Mehlschwalbe. Die Vögel der Heimat, 57:
157–158. Wissel, C., Stefani, M. 1940. Fasanen und andere Hühnervögel.
Department of Genetics University of Georgia Eugene M. McCarthy Post Doctoral Researcher, Athens, 2006
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
Andersson (1982) did this for an African bird called the long-tailed widow-bird (
Euplectes progne]. Early in the breeding season, Andersson caught 36 widow-
birds, having first recorded the number of nests in their territories, which in this ...
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Malachite Lion: A Travel Adventure in Kenya
Most spectacular was the male long-tailed widow bird. Their luxuriant tails were
often more than two feet long. Because of these long curling tail feathers, the
males had difficulty flying. As we proceeded across the plain, we observed the ...
Synonym COLIUSPASSER MACROURUS English name YELLOW-MANTLED
WIDOW BIRD YELLOW-SHOULDERED WIDOW BIRD YELLOW-MANTLED
WHYDAH French name VEUVE A DOS D'OR Ethiopia Doc. Numbers LE/
0000243 ...
Mountain reedbuck can be best seen in Lake Nakuru National Park and also
along the escarpment on the edge of the Masai Mara National Park. Long-tailed
Widow Bird Widow birds probably get their name from the fact that for part of the
year ...
Dave Richards, Val Richards, 2007
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Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean
When the big hawk sees a bird, he seizes it right away, for he is their enemy. A
few, in fact, chose him as their king (they say). Then the widow-bird was chosen,
because he is good-natured and has a large crest, and can sing in different ways.
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A Fulfulde-English Dictionary:
... see arda. ardindira, v.int. follow one another see ara. artfo mbicca, n. the widow
bird cf. ara. artfo mbicca, n. widow bird, or long-tailed whydah, see Wicca. ardo,
adj. ara'o'en, and ara'ufie, a district or clan head; ara'o mbicca, the widow bird, ...
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English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
$12 A Widow Bird A widow bird sate mourning for her Love Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above The freezing stream below. There was no leaf
upon the forest bare, No flower upon the ground, And little motion in the air
Except ...
William Collins, Charles W. Eliot, Edward Fitzgerald, 2010
THOMAS GRAY A Widow Bird A widow bird sate mourning for her love Upon a
wintry bough; The frozen wind crept on above, The freezing stream below. There
was no leaf upon the forest bare. No flower upon the ground, And little motion in ...
