How To Use Sitta In A Sentence
- They are today known as Alexandrine Parakeets (Psittacula eupatria). SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
- They are today known as Alexandrine Parakeets (Psittacula eupatria). SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
- Possibly the most visually striking of all of the South American psittacines, the hawk-headed parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus, is becoming more common in aviculture.
- Usually it is those who seek the gratification of personal glory as well as the sound of the cash register who pump themselves full of this or that chemical, preferably one hitherto unknown to science so that the authorities, who religiously trot out the psittacine mantra that this is the most drug-free Olympics ever, are left flat-footed in their wake. Boycott the Olympics & Read Proust Instead
- He was fortunate in that she saw birds only as carriers of lice, psittacosis and other diseases and left him to go hunting them on his own. MURDER SONG
- Psittacosaurus, though, was a ceratopsid, the group of dinosaurs to which triceratops belonged. Times, Sunday Times
- Divergence times among clades in the ochrocephala complex were estimated using two different molecular clock calibrations (no specific calibration exists for the Psittaciformes).
- One species, C. psittaci, causes psittacosis (so-called parrot fever), a respiratory infection transmitted from birds to people.
- Other notable species include South American pochard Netta erythrophthalma and golden-plumed conure Leptosittaca branickii (VU). Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru
- Jim Murphy, HMG's Europe Minster, a peddlar of the particularly psittacine mantra about the constitutional concept being abandoned, has written a defence of the EU Constitution here for the Spectator. Archive 2007-09-16
