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The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren.
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The remaining four species are found nowhere else: the endangered black-chinned monarch (Monarcha boanensis) and vulnerable salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis), purple-naped lory (Lorius domicella), and lazuli kingfisher (Todirhamphus lazuli).
Seram rain forests 2008
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The bird he caught was a black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri.
Archive 2007-06-01 Sarah Werning 2007
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The bird he caught was a black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri.
Hummingbird! Sarah Werning 2007
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Residents of the Hill Country have had the pleasure of hordes of hummingbirds all summer because black-chinned hummers, close cousins to ruby-throats, breed from there to West Texas.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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Birds commonly seen: Look for all four hummingbirds: rufous, Anna's, calliope and black-chinned.
The Seattle Times 2011
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This simple change of timing opens its nectar stores to a very different pollinator that has no interest in eating it - the black-chinned hummingbird.
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This simple change of timing opens its nectar stores to a very different pollinator that has no interest in eating it - the black-chinned hummingbird.
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The black-chinned emperor tamarin subspecies (S. i.imperator) is considered to be Vulnerable by the IUCN.
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She's a black-chinned, I believe, not the world's most colorful model.
WN.com - Articles related to Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming 2009
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