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4 hours ago · Quirks and Quarks 19:20 Astronaut Roberta Bondar gives a bird’s eye view of migration. 32 years after she flew on the space shuttle, Roberta Bondar is still showing us what the Earth looks like ...
23 hours ago · Falco gentilis Linnaeus, 1758. Accipiter gentilis. The Eurasian goshawk (/ ˈɡɒsˌhɔːk /; Astur gentilis, formerly Accipiter gentilis) is a species of medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, a family which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harriers. It was formerly placed in the genus ...
23 hours ago · Hawaii (/ həˈwaɪ.i / ⓘ hə-WY-ee; [ 9 ] Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics.
23 hours ago · Faroe Islands. The Faroe or Faeroe Islands (/ ˈfɛəroʊ / FAIR-oh), or simply the Faroes (Faroese: Føroyar, pronounced [ˈfœɹjaɹ] ⓘ; Danish: Færøerne [ˈfeɐ̯ˌøˀɐnə]), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. The official language of the country is Faroese, which is ...
23 hours ago · Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds. TNT Staff, September 20, 2024 0 10 min 1. The long-billed curlew doesn’t have as far to travel as other shore and seabirds. This species breeds in the Northwest and Midwest, and spends winters on the coast. This bird is a specialist who uses that long bill to probe for invertebrates in the wet sand.
23 hours ago · Der international offizielle, portugiesische Landesname Timor-Leste bedeutet wörtlich ‚Timor-Ost‘. In der Amtssprache Tetum heißt das Land Timór Loro Sa’e, [ 2 ] was übersetzt ebenfalls ‚Osttimor‘ bedeutet (wörtlich ‚Timor der aufgehenden Sonne‘, wobei die aufgehende Sonne in dieser Sprache für die Himmelsrichtung Osten ...
23 hours ago · Lesotho (/ l ɪ ˈ s uː t uː / ⓘ lih-SOO-too, [6] [7] Sotho pronunciation: [lɪˈsʊːtʰʊ]), formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. As an enclave of South Africa , with which it shares a 1,106 km (687 mi) border, [ 8 ] it is the largest sovereign enclave in the world, and the only one outside of the ...
