Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, having the bend of the wing yellow, or having yellow on the carpal angle of the wing: as, the yellow-shouldered amazon, a South American parrakeet, Chrysotis ochroptera.
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Examples
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The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) has a "vulnerable status", and the Maracaibo tody-flycatcher (Todirotrum viridanum) has a "near threatened" status.
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Domestic pet trade threatens the yellow-shouldered amazon, despite the fact that the law in Venezuela protects it.
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The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) has a "vulnerable" status, and the Maracaibo tody-flycatcher (Todirotrum viridanum) has a "near threatened" status.
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Although Venezuelan law protects the yellow-shouldered amazon, the domestic pet trade threatens it.
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A number of endemic avifauna is found here, including the yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) and the Maracaibo tody-flycatcher (Todirotrum viridanum).
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Mar Negro serves as nesting grounds for native and migratory birds such as, the yellow-shouldered blackbird, the brown pelican and various wading birds.
Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Puerto Rico 2008
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The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) is in danger of extinction.
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Or the lone and ghostly tap-tap-tap of some solitary woodpecker, with now and then the red line of a flying tanager, the yellow and black of a yellow-shouldered blackbird.
An American Tragedy 2004
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Some are musical, and the songs are pleasant in contrast with the harsh voice of the little green, yellow-shouldered parrots of the country.
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A big, yellow-shouldered bee comes booming through the open window, and buzzes up and down my room, and threatens my shrinking ears, and then dives through the window again; and his form recedes and his hum dies away, as if it were the note of a reed-stop in the
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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