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  • 41Squab — Squab, adv. [Cf. dial. Sw. sqvapp, a word imitative of a splash, and E. squab fat, unfledged.] With a heavy fall; plump. [Vulgar] [1913 Webster] The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock. L Estrange.… …

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  • 42Squab — (skw[o^]b), a. [Cf. dial. Sw. sqvabb a soft and fat body, sqvabba a fat woman, Icel. kvap jelly, jellylike things, and E. quab.] 1. Fat; thick; plump; bulky. [1913 Webster] Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. Betterton. [1913 Webster]… …

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  • 43eyas — noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration (by incorrect division of a neias) of neias, from Anglo French niais taken in the nest, from Vulgar Latin *nidax nestling, from Latin nidus nest more at nest Date: 15th century an unfledged bird;… …

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  • 44Arctic Tern — Taxobox name = Arctic Tern status = LC status ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=49262|title=Sterna paradisaea|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern]… …

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  • 45Common Moorhen — Eurasian Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus chloropus) Conservation status …

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  • 46Wing clipping — This article relates to birds. For clipped wing aircraft, see Wing. A wing clipped African Grey Parrot Wing clipping is the process of trimming a bird s primary flight feathers ( primaries ) so that it is no longer fully flighted …

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  • 47Waved Albatross — Conservation status Critically Endangered …

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  • 48Bejan — (Fr. bejaune , from bec jaune , yellow beak, in allusion to unfledged birds, and the equivalent to Ger. Gelbschnabel ) was a term for freshmen, or undergraduates of the first year, in the Scottish universities.The phrase was introduced from the… …

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  • 49Guadalupe Storm-petrel — Taxobox name = Guadalupe Storm petrel status = PE status system = iucn3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Procellariiformes familia = Hydrobatidae genus = Oceanodroma species = O. macrodactyla binomial = Oceanodroma… …

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  • 50German Nun (pigeon) — German Nun ( de. Deutsches Nönnchen) is a breed of fancy pigeon bred by German pigeon fanciers. German pigeon breeders have had great success in breeding German Nuns, which originated in the early seventeenth century. These birds are also… …

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