The ocellated turkey (Agriocharis ocellata) occurs in Yucatan. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
The cardinal bird and the ocellated turkey must not be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Even today, in the rural Peten area of Guatemala, ocellated turkeys are sometimes kept around houses as scavengers. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
The annual burning of pasture land affects some nesting birds in the area, particularly the endangered ocellated turkey. From Wordnik.com. [Tikal National Park, Guatemala] Reference
No distinct tufts of scales or knobs appear, and the ocellated region is traversed by four or five dark longitudinal lines. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
Other studies have been conducted on the protection of the endangered ocellated turkey, sedimentation, and social sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Tikal National Park, Guatemala] Reference
Gonatodes ocellatus, ocellated gecko, adult male by Daniel Scantlebury — This species is found only on rocky slopes on Tobago and Little Tobago Island. From Wordnik.com. [Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Two endemic birds, the ocellated thrasher (Toxostoma ocellatum), bridled sparrow (Aimorphilla mystacalis), and one plant, locally called tetecho (Lemairocereus weberi), inhabit this region. From Wordnik.com. [Tehuacán Valley matorral] Reference
However only four species are strict endemics: regal girdled lizard (Cordylus regius), dwarf wolf snake (Cryptolycus nanus), ocellated flat lizard (Platysaurus ocellatus), and Platysaurus oshaughnessyi. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Miombo woodlands] Reference
It is much like the common turkey in size, form, and behavior: however, unlike the common turkey, which in Mexico lives in the high mountain pine and oak forests, the ocellated turkey inhabits bushy, semiforested lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
The avifauna comprises 333 species, representing 63 of the 74 families in Guatemala, and includes ocellated turkey Agriocharis ocellata (LR), Sarcorhamphus papa, Crax rubra, Penelope purpurascens, red macaw Ara macao, jaribu stork Jaribu mycteria and many others, including crested eagle Spizaetus ornatus. From Wordnik.com. [Tikal National Park, Guatemala] Reference
Argus of Borneo, excessively elongated secondaries; and its tail is not formed of normal rectrices, from the middle of which spring two very long feathers, a little curved and arranged like a roof; but it consists of twelve wide plane feathers, regularly tapering, and ornamented with ocellated spots, arranged along the shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
Their orange flanks and ocellated sides were sufficiently characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
Other figures of ocellated turkeys show but little in addition to the points just discussed. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference
One had a dark body, a white-speckled or ocellated neck, and a bill almost like that of an ibis. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
DeWoody and former Purdue graduate student Johel Chaves-Campos studied ocellated antbirds in the tropical forests of Central America. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A remarkable figure is that shown in Pl. 17, fig. 4, in which an ocellated turkey and a king vulture confront each other with necks intertwined. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference
Moreover, this same sign occurs on the drawings of the bills of the frigate-bird and the ocellated turkey, and is evidently not of specific significance. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference
Taylor already had distinguished himself by conducting what is widely considered to be the definitive research on the ocellated turkey of Central America. From Wordnik.com. [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference
There are a very large number of birds, such as the great Argus pheasant, the fire-backed and ocellated pheasants, the crested partridge (Rollulus coronatus), the small Malacca parrot. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference
We linked these two lines of research by evaluating if constrained acoustic features reveal male genetic diversity during aggressive interactions in ocellated antbirds (Phaenostictus mcleannani). From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
And yet it bore some resemblance to a peacock, with its long heavy tail and wings speckled and ocellated in a very striking manner, and something like the "marbled" feathers that adorn the peacock's back. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
The handle of the fan consisted of the leg and foot of a turkey, while the body was composed of the brilliant and beautifully spotted feathers of the ocellated turkey, a bird peculiar to Yucatan and the adjacent country. From Wordnik.com. [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference
Amongst the described species of the genus it most nearly resembles Cabot's tragopan, being in the lower part of its middle of a nearly uniform colour, somewhat like that species, and not distinctly ocellated, as in the three other members of the genus. From Wordnik.com. [Words and Pictures From Old Books] Reference
In the catalogues of the brokers 'sales of feathers we read of many thousands of the wonderful ocellated wing feathers of the argus pheasant, but no less horrible is the sight of a canoe crammed with the bedraggled bodies of these magnificent birds on their way to some. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Anyone who has seen a Zoological Park peacock working overtime on a Sunday afternoon in summer when the crowds of visitors are greatest, solely to display the ocellated splendor of his tail plumage, surely must conclude that the bird is well aware of the glories of his tail, and also that he positively enjoys showing off to admiring audiences. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Moreover, here the wolf awakes the reverberating echoes of the forest with its dismal howl; the raccoon, opossum, and squirrel pass their lives in sportive gambols; the wild and the ocellated turkeys strut about, pompous in manner, as if conscious of their handsome plumage, while the timid deer and shaggy-coated bison roam over prairies or through woodland glades, as yet unacquainted with the report of the white man's destructive fire-arms. From Wordnik.com. [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference
Birds are the most numerous fauna in the ecoregion with lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus), ocellated turkey (Agriocharis ocellata), white-crowned pigeon (Columba leucocephala), black catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), clapper rail (Rallus longirostris) cormarant (Phalacrocorax spp.), roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), and jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) listed as a sampling. From Wordnik.com. [Mayan Corridor mangroves] Reference
How remarkable it is that besides the lion and tiger, almost all the other large cats are arboreal in their habits, and almost all have ocellated or spotted skins, which must certainly tend to blend them with the background of foliage; while the one exception, the puma, has an ashy brown uniform fur, and has the habit of clinging so closely to a limb of a tree while waiting for his prey to pass beneath as to be hardly distinguishable from the bark. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
Oaxaca, 4, 6, 15, 112. obsidian, 240. ocellated turkey, 318. From Wordnik.com. [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference
Species include gulf menhaden, scaled sardine, cowfish, filefish, moharra, penfish, ladyfish, catfish, mullet, pompano, tarpon, spadefish, triggerfish, tripletail, ocellated moray, mangrove snapper, silversides, grunt, and snook. From Wordnik.com. [Georgianne Nienaber: Sanibel Island: Frigid Florida Waters Decimating Fish and Turtles] Reference
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