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Stormy Bird (Romanian: Pasărea furtunii) is a 1957 Romanian drama film directed by Dinu Negreanu. [1] The film portrays the lives of Black Sea fisherman during the Second World War and then in the years following the Communist takeover .
The stormy petrel finds a home,— A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea. O’er the deep!—o'er the deep! Where the whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep,— Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale—in vain!
Riparian parrotlets are found in southeastern Colombia to northern Peru and western Brazil. [1] There is a small population on São Sebastião Island. [2] Though they do not fully migrate, it has been suggested that riparian parrotlets are altitudinal migrants: abundance of the species in lowland areas increased during winter and spring; this is likely because during these seasons, the main ...
The more specific "storm petrel" or "stormy petrel" is a reference to their habit of hiding in the lee of ships during storms. [37] Early sailors named these birds "Mother Carey's chickens" because they were thought to warn of oncoming storms; this name is based on a corrupted form of Mater Cara, a name for the Blessed Virgin Mary. [38]
Maxim Gorky himself would be referred to with the epithet "the Stormy Petrel of the Revolution" (Буревестник Революции); [14] [15] monuments, posters, postage stamps and commemorative coins depicting the writer would often be decorated with the image of a soaring aquatic bird.
Mexican parrotlets are highly social and gregarious birds, most often found in flocks of 4–30 individuals made up of pairs and family groups. [4] When flying in these flocks, they fly quickly and in relatively tight formations. [3] They create a variety of squeaky, excited-sounding chirps while perched or in flight. While feeding, they make ...
The sapphire-rumped parrotlet is 17 to 18 cm (6.7 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 54 to 66 g (1.9 to 2.3 oz). Its body is mostly green, darker above than below, and with a blue lower back and rump. The nominate subspecies' forehead and crown are olive brown and those of T. p. viridiceps are green; both have a white eye ring.
Until recently, the turquoise-winged parrotlet was considered a subspecies of the cobalt-rumped parrotlet as Forpus xanthopterygius spengeli.However, in 2015 Bocalini and Silveira studied morphological differences between subspecies of cobalt-rumped parrotlets and determined that the turquoise-winged parrotlet was its own species, F. spengeli. [4]