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Birds Grosbeak – Animals Coloring Book Pages Sheet

Grosbeak is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks. Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea, these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly related songbirds. Some are cardueline finches in the family Fringillidae, while others are cardinals in the family Cardinalidae; one is a member of the weaver family Ploceidae. The word “grosbeak”, first applied in the late 1670s, is a partial translation of the French grosbec, where gros means “large” and bec means “beak”.

 

 

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Birds Grebe – Animals Coloring Book Pages Sheet

A grebe is a member of the order Podicipediformes and the only type of bird associated with this order. Grebes are a widely distributed order of freshwater diving birds, some of which visit the sea when migrating and in winter.

 

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Birds Greater Yellowlegs – Animals Coloring Book Pages Sheet

The greater yellowlegs is a large North American shorebird. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.

 

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