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  • The type locality of Dja River warbler Bradypterus grandis (D (VU), which is endemic to southern Cameroon, and grey-necked picathartes D) is near the reserve and there are few other records of this kind.

    Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon 2008

  • Year round residents include rare species such as black-collared hawk (Busarellus nigricollis), grey-necked wood-rail (Aramides cajanea), least grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus) and Black-Crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax).

    Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves 2007

  • He, alas, is plentiful in the various hill stations; but it is some consolation that the grey-necked

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Like the grey-necked crow, the Indian tree-pie is not found at the

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Among the latter the most prominent are the grey-necked crow, the koel, the myna, the king-crow and the magpie-robin.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Unlike its grey-necked cousin, this bird is not a public nuisance; nevertheless it occasionally renders itself objectionable by carrying off a chicken or a tame pigeon.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Barlow was up early next morning, wakened by that universal alarm clock of India, the grey-necked, small-bodied city crow whose tribe is called the Seven Sisters -- noisy, impudent, clamorous, sharp-eyed thieves that throng the compounds like sparrows, that hop in through the open window and steal a slice of toast from beside the cup of tea at the bedside.

    Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

  • Then the man and the hound disappeared as if they had been resolved into the rays of the sun; Setanta saw nothing, only the grey-necked crow starting for flight.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

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