The crescent honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus) is a bird native to southeastern Australia, in the honeyeater family. It is fairly nondescript, with dark grey plumage and paler underparts highlighted by yellow wing patches and a broad, black crescent, outlined in white, down the sides of its breast. The female is a little duller than the male. The male sings a complex and variable song from an exposed perch, and during the breeding season performs song flights. The crescent honeyeater is found in areas of dense vegetation including sclerophyll forest and alpine habitats, as well as heathland, parks and gardens. Its diet is made up of nectar and invertebrates. It forms long-term pairs, and often commits to one breeding site for several years. The female builds the nest and does most of the caring for two or three young, which become independent within 40 days of egg-laying. Although the parent birds use a range of anti-predator strategies, nestlings can be taken by snakes, kookaburras, currawongs, or cats.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1661:
Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell%27s_head
1847:
The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
1945:
World War II: Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan
1972:
On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)
2013:
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naro-1
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
redress: 1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. 2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. 3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/redress
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
No nation which refuses to exercise forbearance and to respect the freedom and rights of others can long remain strong and retain the confidence and respect of other nations. No nation ever loses its dignity or good standing by conciliating its differences and by exercising great patience with, and consideration for, the rights of other nations. --Franklin D. Roosevelt https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt