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  • Other endemic species include Hawaiian thrush (omao) Phaeornis obscurus; and the following honeycreepers, apapane Himatione sanguinea, elepaio Chasiempis sandwichensis, amakihi Hemignathus virens and iiwi Vestiaria coccinea.

    Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, United States 2009

  • Coal fish (Pollachius virens; new ecords of spawning fish), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), spurdog (Squalus acanthias)

    Past variability in Arctic marine systems 2009

  • But truth be told, this little guy, Nereis virens, has a fang-like jaw that, in addition to helping it burrow into sediment, could serve as a model for a new class of super-strong, lightweight materials.

    Material World: July 2008 Tracy Staedter 2008

  • But truth be told, this little guy, Nereis virens, has a fang-like jaw that, in addition to helping it burrow into sediment, could serve as a model for a new class of super-strong, lightweight materials.

    Material World: New materials Tracy Staedter 2008

  • But truth be told, this little guy, Nereis virens, has a fang-like jaw that, in addition to helping it burrow into sediment, could serve as a model for a new class of super-strong, lightweight materials.

    Material World: Marine Worm Jaws Inspire New Aerospace Materials Tracy Staedter 2008

  • The western yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) and the Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), as well as several other riparian specialists, have all declined significantly in California due to loss of riparian forests.

    California Central Valley grasslands 2008

  • Smith et al. looked at interbreeding populations of a common passerine, the little greenbul (Andropadus virens), which lives in both dense rain forest and in the forest-savanna ecotone of the Cameroon mosaic.

    Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic 2007

  • One of my grad school friends also brought cascaria for the bath, and some semper virens plants sp? to cleanse the air in my room and encourage regeneration.

    I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends 2007

  • One of my grad school friends also brought cascaria for the bath, and some semper virens plants sp? to cleanse the air in my room and encourage regeneration.

    Dove's Eye View: 2007

  • But I will choose a site, whose latitude shall be 45 degrees (I respect not minutes) in the midst of the temperate zone, or perhaps under the equator, that [604] paradise of the world, ubi semper virens laurus, &c. where is a perpetual spring: the longitude for some reasons I will conceal.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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