Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a white rump or white upper tail-coverts: specifying various birds.
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Examples
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The white-rumped shama began singing again, its whistling warbling song, and this helped him change the subject.
Beard 2010
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"It's a white-rumped shama thrush," Lionberg said.
Beard 2010
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The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica.
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'We discovered the nests on top of a hill where two other vulture species were also found, one of whichthe white-rumped vultureis also' Critically Endangered ',' said Song Chansocheat, manager of the Cambodia Vulture Conservation Project, a government project supported by WCS, BirdLife International, World Wildlife Fund, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The Himalayan Times is saying that a group of about 40 white-rumped vultures has been discovered in Beli Patela forest at Dhangadhi of Kailali district, Nepal.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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I had never seen a white-rumped bumble bee in the States before.
Archive 2009-09-01 DNLee 2009
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I had never seen a white-rumped bumble bee in the States before.
Pollinators make the world go round (Travelog Europe) DNLee 2009
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Orangutans, pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina), and the white-rumped shama (Copyschus malabaricus), with its melodious calls, can be seen or heard during the early part of the day.
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In addition, the white-rumped kingfisher (Caridonax fulgidus) is the sole representative of an endemic monotypic genus.
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Soon it was revealed in the presence of two species of birds, the Australian bee-eater (MEROPS ORNATUS) and the white-rumped wood-swallow (ARTAMUS LEUCOGASTA).
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