The red warbler (Cardellina rubra) is a small bird of the New World warbler family, Parulidae. Endemic to the highlands of Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, it is closely related to the pink-headed warbler of southern Mexico and Guatemala. There are three subspecies, which differ primarily in the shading of their ear patch and in the brightness and tone of their red body plumage. Young birds are pinkish- brown, with a whitish ear patch and two pale wingbars. Breeding typically occurs between February and May. The female lays three or four eggs in a domed nest, which she builds on the ground. Though she alone incubates the eggs, both sexes feed the young and remove fecal sacs from the nest. The young fledge within eleven days of hatching. The red warbler is an insectivore, gleaning primarily in understory shrubs. The species is not threatened, but its numbers are thought to be declining due to habitat destruction.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1790:
Peking opera (modern performer pictured) was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_opera
1962:
The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah al-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen to be a republic under his presidency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War
1977:
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Marathon
1990:
The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Rath_Yatra
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immiseration: Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immiseration
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The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious .profile --Glenn Gould https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould