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  • Listen to that orange-winged thrasher rummage through leaves outside your bedroom window.

    Stop. 2009

  • Listen to that orange-winged thrasher rummage through leaves outside your bedroom window.

    Stop. 2009

  • Non-aquatic species can be occasionally observed in mangroves including the orange-winged parrot (Amazona amazonica), the yellow-headed parrot (A. ochrocephala), as well as dense populations of macaws such as Ara chloroptera and A. severa.

    Coastal Venezuelan mangroves 2008

  • Well-protected mangroves on the São Paulo and Paraná are important for some species of parrots, such as the orange-winged parrot (Amazona amazonica).

    Ilha Grande mangroves 2008

  • As a class project, the students have watched the eggs hatch into caterpillars and then eventually become the familiar orange-winged butterflies.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • a monument to its own magnificence; and not just this swarm of scarlet, orange-winged berries or the intractable tanglings of vines like stiffened springs, but these astounding roots also: blood-bright, trailing their corpse-hair capillaries down through the topsoil.

    Bittersweet 2007

  • a monument to its own magnificence; and not just this swarm of scarlet, orange-winged berries or the intractable tanglings of vines like stiffened springs, but these astounding roots also: blood-bright, trailing their corpse-hair capillaries down through the topsoil.

    Bittersweet 2007

  • As we went, every spot within sight was full of interest; rich with associations; the air was warm but pleasant; the warble of the orange-winged blackbird – I don't know if I ought to call it a warble; it was a very fine and strong note, or whistle, – sounding from the rocks as we went by, thrilled me with a wild reminder of all that had once been busy life there, where now the blackbird's cry sounded alone.

    Daisy in the Field 1869

  • As we went, every spot within sight was full of interest; rich with associations; the air was warm but pleasant; the warble of the orange-winged blackbird - I don't know if I ought to call it a warble; it was a very fine and strong note, or whistle, - sounding from the rocks as we went by, thrilled me with a wild reminder of all that had once been busy life there, where now the blackbird's cry sounded alone.

    Daisy in the Field Susan Warner 1852

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