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Finched Pinzgau cows. Finching is a colour pattern of cattle occurring in many unrelated breeds. It consists of a white or pale stripe along the spine. It may join to a white head, as in Hereford cattle, continue over the tail, as in Gloucester and Pinzgau cattle, or it may form part of another colour-sided pattern, for example in Randall Lineback, English Longhorn, Texas Longhorn, Speckle ...
The black-and-white mannikin (Spermestes bicolor) also black-and-white munia or red-backed mannikin, is a species of estrildid finch, widely occurring throughout the African tropical rainforest.
The genus Idiopsar was introduced in 1867 by the American ornithologist John Cassin to accommodate the newly described boulder finch. [1] The name combines the Ancient Greek idios meaning "distinct" or "peculiar" with psar meaning "starling".
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The lesser goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) is a small finch in the genus Spinus native to the Americas.. As is the case for most species in the genus Spinus, lesser goldfinch males have a black forehead, which females lack.
Green-backed twinspot in Budongo Forest, Uganda. The green backed twinspot prefers its privacy in regards to breeding. Males in the breeding season will raise their heads, looking straight up while "dancing" on the perch next to the female, moving in a side-stepping fashion.
The black-backed bush tanager was formally described in 1885 by Władysław Taczanowski and Hans von Berlepsch from specimens collected by the Polish zoologist Jan Sztolcman (sometimes written Jean Stolzmann) on the eastern slopes of the Tungurahua Volcano in central Ecuador.
The chestnut-backed sparrow-lark was originally placed in the genus Loxia. [2] It was later moved to the Lark family Alaudidae under the genus Eremopterix which includes all other sparrow-lark species.