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  • The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren.

    Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey) 2009

  • The remaining four species are found nowhere else: the endangered black-chinned monarch (Monarcha boanensis) and vulnerable salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis), purple-naped lory (Lorius domicella), and lazuli kingfisher (Todirhamphus lazuli).

    Seram rain forests 2008

  • The bird he caught was a black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Sarah Werning 2007

  • The bird he caught was a black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri.

    Hummingbird! Sarah Werning 2007

  • Residents of the Hill Country have had the pleasure of hordes of hummingbirds all summer because black-chinned hummers, close cousins to ruby-throats, breed from there to West Texas.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Birds commonly seen: Look for all four hummingbirds: rufous, Anna's, calliope and black-chinned.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • This simple change of timing opens its nectar stores to a very different pollinator that has no interest in eating it - the black-chinned hummingbird.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • This simple change of timing opens its nectar stores to a very different pollinator that has no interest in eating it - the black-chinned hummingbird.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • The black-chinned emperor tamarin subspecies (S. i.imperator) is considered to be Vulnerable by the IUCN.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • She's a black-chinned, I believe, not the world's most colorful model.

    WN.com - Articles related to Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming 2009

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