Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a white breast or bosom.
- Having the breast more or less white: specifying numerous animals. See cut under
squirrel-hawk .
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Over 230 bird species have been recorded, 143 typical of primary forest, including white-breasted guineafowl Agelastes meleagrides (E), Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (I), western wattled cuckoo-shrike Campephaga lobata (V), and yellow-throated olive greenbul Criniger olivaceus (V).
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Those "European turkeys" were eventually brought back to North America and are the ancestors of the white-breasted turkey that is the variety raised commercially as well as the heritage breeds, many of which look much more like their wild ancestors.
David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities David Mizejewski 2010
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Some of the more common birds are the northern pygmy-owl, olive warbler, red-faced warbler, hepatic tanager, mountain bluebird, pygmy nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, Mexican junco, Steller's jay, red-shafted flicker and the Rocky Mountain sapsucker.
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The islands, especially Mumbo and Boadzulu, are important nesting sites for several thousand white-breasted cormorant Phalacrocorax lucidus.
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