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  2. The Cu Bird - Wikipedia

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    The Cu bird (Spanish: pájaro cu or cú) is a bird from a Mexican folktale that is unhappy with its looks. According to the legend, the other birds agreed to the barn owl's proposal to give the Cu bird one feather each and in return asked it to become the messenger of the bird council. But the bird soon started neglecting its task because ...

  3. Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo - Wikipedia

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    Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae Genus: Coccyzus Species: C. vieilloti Binomial name Coccyzus vieilloti (Bonaparte, 1850) Synonyms Saurothera vieilloti Vieilloti’s Ground Cuckoo The Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo (Coccyzus ...

  4. Spanish grammar - Wikipedia

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    NEG se CL puede can. 1SG pisar walk el the césped grass No se puede pisar el césped NEG CL can.1SG walk the grass "You cannot walk on the grass." Zagona also notes that, generally, oblique phrases do not allow for a double clitic, yet some verbs of motion are formed with double clitics: María María se CL fue went.away- 3SG María se fue María CL went.away-3SG "Maria went away ...

  5. Wappo language - Wikipedia

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    As listed above in the consonant section, /f/, /d/, /g/, /r/ and /rʼ/ are used for Spanish borrowings. Many of the first words borrowed from Spanish into Wappo referred to items that were traded. In some cases, words may have been borrowed from other American Indian languages in contact with Spanish, rather than directly from Spanish.

  6. Oilbird - Wikipedia

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    Oilbirds are related to the nightjars and have sometimes been placed with these in the order Caprimulgiformes.However, the nightjars and their relatives are insectivores while the oilbird is a specialist fructivore, and it is sufficiently distinctive to be placed in a family (Steatornithidae) and suborder (Steatornithes) of its own.

  7. Phainopepla - Wikipedia

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    The phainopepla is a striking bird, 16–20 cm (6.3–7.9 in) long with a noticeable crest and a long tail; it is slender, and has an upright posture when it perches. Its bill is short and slender. The male is glossy black, and has a white wing patch that is visible when it flies; the female is plain gray and has a lighter gray wing patch.

  8. Reverso (language tools) - Wikipedia

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    It also has tools for conjugation of verbs in various languages, spell checking tools, and written multilingual grammar guides for language learners. Reverso Documents service translates documents and websites while preserving their layout. [16]

  9. Queísmo - Wikipedia

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    Queísmo is a phenomenon in Spanish grammar, the omission of a preposition, usually de, which, in Standard Spanish, would precede the conjunction (or complementizer) que. For example, " No me di cuenta que habías venido " ("I didn't realize you had come"), compared to the standard " No me di cuenta de que habías venido ".