white-rumped

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For instance, millions of white-rumped vultures once flocked Asian skies.

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  1. Having a white rump or white upper tail-coverts: specifying various birds.
  2. White-rumped petrel Leach's petrel, Cymochorea leucorrhoa, of a fuliginous color with white upper tail coverts: found on both east and west coasts of the United States.
  3. White-rumped sandpiper Bonaparte's sandpiper, Tringa or Actodromas bonapartei, having white upper tail-coverts: abundant in many parts of North America.
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  • Some of the 40 species of shorebirds that visit the Rainwater Basin include American golden-plovers, white-rumped sandpipers, sanderlings, Wilson's phalaropes, and Hudsonian godwits that migrate each year between Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America, and the northernmost brink of Canada and Alaska. —  Grand Island Independent Home RSS
  • (03 / 19 / 2009) Seven critically-endangered white-rumped vultures were found dead in Cambodia after feeding on the corpse of a poisoned buffalo. —  Mongabay.com News
  • The white-rumped vulture, a once common sight in India, has seen its population crash by —  Signs of the Times
  • Seven critically-endangered white-rumped vultures were found dead in Cambodia after feeding on the corpse of a poisoned buffalo. —  Mongabay.com News
  • WCS veterinarian Dr. Priscilla Joyner (right) and bird bander Helen Ward (left) examine one of the white-rumped vultures Photo credit: Allan Michaud. —  Mongabay.com News
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