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  • Raptors amongst the stabilised sands include 15 breeding pairs (about a tenth of the world's population) of the Spanish imperial eagle Aquila heliaca adalberti (VU), black vulture Aegypius monachus, short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus, buzzard Buteo buteo, black kite Milvus migrans, black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus, red kite M. milvus, and hobby Falco subbuteo.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • Some 19 species of snake occur in the park including king cobra Ophiophagus hannah, green pit viper Trimeresurus albolabris, common krait Bungarus caeruleus and Indian python Python molurus (V).

    Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal 2009

  • (Sardinops sagax caeruleus) life cycle with the Gulf of California pelagic environment.

    California Current large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Coupling of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax caeruleus) life cycle with the Gulf of California pelagic environment.

    Gulf of California large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Altogether, the ecoregion boasts more than 220 breeding vertebrates, about twenty percent of which are raptors (i.e. Elanus caeruleus, Circaetus gallicus, Aegypius monachus, and Gyps fulvus).

    Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests 2008

  • A similar process of radiation has occurred in many birds, such as the blue tit Parus caeruleus (Paridae) that has evolved into three different subspecies: P.c. teneriffae in Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Gomera, P.c. ombriosus in El Hierro and P.c. palmensis in La Palma.

    Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests 2008

  • The ecoregion boasts more than 220 breeding vertebrates, about twenty percent of which are raptors including Elanus caeruleus, Circaetus gallicus, Aegypius monachus, and Gyps fulvus.

    Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008

  • The pretty little antelope (Cephalophus caeruleus), about the size of a hare, seemed to abound, as many of their skins were offered for sale.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • Near this place several Nunklow plants appear, as Plectranthus caeruleus, Labiata foliis verticillatis of Suddya.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • I cannot think so; any more than I can that the considerable differences between [female symbol] and [male symbol] house-sparrow, or much greater brightness of [male symbol] Parus caeruleus (both of which build under cover) than of [female symbol] Parus are related to protection.

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

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