Ghostbird

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And its a bit of a love letter to county fairs, but that's just my nostalgia seeping through. Language: English Words: 6,646 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 1 Kudos: 16 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 229 Great potoos usually weigh around 12 – 23 ounces (340-652 g). 5. What is the great potoos wingspan?

There are villages in rural South America that will eat great potoo, but since the birds are hard to locate and small in stature, they aren’t considered a viable food source. Great potoos are vulnerable to weasels, falcons, howlers, spider monkeys, and capuchin monkeys. They can be killed as adults or snatched as eggs. 11. How do great potoos defend themselves from predators? Sang has faced punishments her whole life from her mother. Although she has a sister, the punishments only ever happen to Sang. With the blossoming of womanhood, she finds that nothing she can do or say can protect her from being punished. Trigger warnings: racism, racial slurs, assault, disappearance of a sibling, mentions of kidnapping, death of a parent (in the past).

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Having nine boyfriends can be complicated, but being intimate can be even harder. Language: English Words: 29,396 Chapters: 7/? Comments: 4 Kudos: 106 Bookmarks: 18 Hits: 3,269 A lot of potoo birds look completely normal, but those aren’t the photos that go viral. It’s normally something a little more like this: Stranger Within The Gates was re-published in 2008 as part of a classics series by Honno Welsh Women’s Press that aims to rediscover lost Welsh women writers. Bertha Thomas’ short stories examine social changes, women’s rights, hybridity and the significance of “the other”. This is a great read for those who love both satire and the gothic. Stacey is an intelligent and considerate young lady, she has the utmost respect for her elders, her mother and her large, fiercely protective family. Laney pushed boundaries, defying their mother and the educational system that favours white students, Indigenous students ignored and their education seen as secondary and an indication of how the white Eidsvold community thrive on racism and ignorance.

The potoos today are exclusively found in the Americas, but they apparently had a much more widespread distribution in the past. Fossil remains of potoos dating from the Eocene have been found in Germany. [4] A complete skeleton of the genus Paraprefica has been found in Messel, Germany. It had skull and leg features similar to those of modern potoos, suggesting that it may be an early close relative of the modern potoos. Because the only fossils other than these ancient ones that have been found are recent ones of extinct species, it is unknown if the family once had a global distribution which has contracted, or if the distribution of the family was originally restricted to Europe and has shifted to the Americas. [4] No. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN), great potoos are ranked as “ least concern” in terms of potential extinction threat. Something to keep in mind is that their most famously bug-eyed pictures became famous because they caught the potoo at the silliest possible moment or the worst possible angle. The appearance of the ghost bird was super spooky and it lends itself to a chilling atmosphere within the book.

Stranger Within The Gates: A Collection of Short Stories by Bertha Thomas (1912)

If you're looking for a creepy little mystery to sink your teeth into, I recommend this highly. It's also a great option for anyone looking to explore more indigenous authors. LOVED IT. The English zoologist Hugh Cott, describing Nyctibius griseus as "this wonderful bird", writes that it "habitually selects the top of an upright stump as a receptacle for its egg, which usually occupies a small hollow just, and only just, large enough to contain it ... the stump selected had thrown up a new leader just below the point of fracture ... and the birds sat facing this in such a way that when viewed from behind they came into line and blended with the grey stem." [18] Food and feeding [ edit ] Nearly all great potoos have white bands on their tails. There are 8 – 9 bands in total. No one is quite sure why they exist, but they’re a distinctive feature of the species if you’re trying to spot one in the wild.

After listening to the presentation, White River refuge manager Larry Mallard looked at Martjan Lammertink. “Martjan,” he said, “we have a saying around here that you can’t be just a little bit pregnant. So tell me: Are we pregnant, or are we not?” Halloween (or Nos Galan Gaeaf, as we say in Wales) presents the perfect opportunity for us to explore these social tensions through the macabre.

Great potoos lay one egg at a time, and since they only lay one egg per breeding season, this single egg represents their whole reproductive cycle for the calendar year. Rose Marley (WyntyrRose) Fandoms: The Ghost Bird Series - C. L. Stone, Scarab Beetle Series - C. L. Stone