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- noun Plural form of
minivet .
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It is also home to black bear, takin, golden monkeys, musk deer, blood pheasants, minivets, rock squirrel, and black- and red-striped swallowtails.27
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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It is also home to black bear, takin, golden monkeys, musk deer, blood pheasants, minivets, rock squirrel, and black- and red-striped swallowtails.27
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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It is also home to black bear, takin, golden monkeys, musk deer, blood pheasants, minivets, rock squirrel, and black- and red-striped swallowtails.27
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Apart from those species particularly associated with the sea and wetlands, there is also a considerable variety of forest birds such as woodpeckers, barbets, shrikes, drongos, mynahs, minivets, babblers and many others.
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Bored with the sea watch, most of us looked at other birds in the surrounding remnant forest - resident sea-eagles, scarlet minivets, tiny falconets, dollarbirds doing their aerial dance that earned them their other name: rollers.
Archive 2007-03-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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I'm reading From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe as is Joel of Far Outliers, who posts some good quotes from the early chapters, and I ran across an intriguing word on page 55: "The cacophony of the monsoon gone, the music of the cold season worked up to a climax in the songs of birds both native and migratory, especially the scarlet minivets and the swallows."
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Most people are quite satisfied to know that these exquisite little birds are all called minivets.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Many of the wire-tailed swallows, minivets and white-browed fantail flycatchers bring up a second brood during the rains.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Grey-headed and red-breasted flycatchers, minivets, bush-chats, rose-finches and swallows pour into the plains from the Himalayas, while from beyond those mountains come redstarts, wagtails, starlings, buntings, blue-throats, quail and snipe.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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They have some very handsome relatives which are known as minivets.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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