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    men today); the pie's call was considered to sound like the idle chattering of a woman, and so it came to be called the "Mag pie". "Pie" as a term for...
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    Northern lapwing (redirect from Pie-wipe)
    snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 November 2021. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm...
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    Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name La pie-griesche rouge du Sénégal and the Latin Lanius Senegalensis ruber. Although...
    6 KB (642 words) - 21:32, 12 December 2023
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    Rufous treepie (category Taxa named by John Latham (ornithologist))
    Tree-pie". Popular Handbook of Indian Birds (Fourth ed.). Gurney and Jackson. pp. 12–14. Hume, A. O. (1889). "Dendrocitta rufa (Scop.) The Indian Tree-pie"...
    12 KB (1,239 words) - 09:30, 2 March 2024
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    in Milan, Italy "I think I'll go now." — Oliver L. Austin, American ornithologist (31 December 1988), to his wife "Where is my clock?" ("Dónde está mi...
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  • 16, 1907 – August 29, 1998) was an American writer, naturalist and ornithologist known for her work with the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin, and...
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    status, especially in North America and southern Africa, and American ornithologist Harry Church Oberholser even gave the subspecies name P. d. plecticus...
    113 KB (13,135 words) - 11:42, 22 April 2024
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    for example in the American Ornithologists' Union's first check-list. Some authorities, such as the British Ornithologists' Union and the Handbook of the...
    29 KB (2,240 words) - 01:08, 24 March 2024
  • George W. Archibald (b. 1946), New Glasgow, Nova Scotia-native, American ornithologist The surname becomes more widespread in the English-speaking world in...
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    wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar "I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies." — William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (23 January...
    183 KB (20,870 words) - 01:51, 5 May 2024
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    Stresemann's bushcrow (Zavattariornis stresemanni), also known as the Abyssinian pie, bush crow, Ethiopian bushcrow, or by its generic name Zavattariornis, is...
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  • (1913–1991), Scottish footballer Elliott McClure (1910–1998), American ornithologist Eric McClure, American race car driver Floyd Alonzo McClure (1897–1970)...
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    providing backing vocals for Madonna many years later, on her cover of "American Pie" and on the track "They Can't Take That Away from Me" on Robbie Williams'...
    48 KB (3,475 words) - 19:47, 2 May 2024
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    1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name sea pie, although the term had earlier been used by the Welsh Naturalist Thomas Pennant...
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    apothecary, publisher and printer Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867), ornithologist, botanist and artist William Henry Percy (1788–1855), naval commander...
    29 KB (2,840 words) - 11:24, 29 April 2024
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    specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. He used the French name La Pie-Griesche jaune de Cayenne and the Latin name Lanius Cayanensis Luteus. Although...
    26 KB (2,730 words) - 17:31, 26 April 2024
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    Johann Friedrich Gmelin (category German ornithologists)
    Oetinger, whom he thanks with the words Patrono et praeceptore in aeternum pie devenerando, pro summis in medicina obtinendis honoribus. In 1769, Gmelin...
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    Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name La pie-griesche gris du Sénégal and the Latin Lanius Senegalensis cinereus. Although...
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    Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name La pie du Sénégal and the Latin Pica Senegalensis. Although Brisson coined Latin...
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    with a 1947 trip to the British Cameroons (now part of Cameroon) with ornithologist John Yealland, financed by a £3,000 inheritance from his father on turning...
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