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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_warbler>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>
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