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List of animal names. Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on ...
Southern white-faced owl. Southern white-fringed antwren. Southern yellow white-eye. Southern yellow-billed hornbill. Southern yellowthroat. Souza's shrike. Spangle-cheeked tanager. Spangled coquette.
A duckling is a young duck in downy plumage [ 1] or baby duck, [ 2] but in the food trade a young domestic duck which has just reached adult size and bulk and its meat is still fully tender, is sometimes labelled as a duckling. A male is called a drake and the female is called a duck, or in ornithology a hen. [ 3][ 4]
In 1743, the naturalist George Edwards included the mourning dove with the English name "long-tail'd dove" and the Latin name Columba macroura in his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Edwards's pictures of the male and female doves were drawn from live birds that had been shipped to England from the West Indies. [6]
While rare, mostly abortive, parthenogenesis is not unknown in birds and eggs can be diploid, automictic and results in male offspring. [99] Birds are solely gonochoric. [100] Meaning they have two sexes: either female or male. The sex of birds is determined by the Z and W sex chromosomes, rather than by the X and Y chromosomes present in mammals.
The book included an illustration of the male bird showing the red gular pouch. [1] Like the genus name, the English term is derived from the French mariners' name for the bird la frégate—a frigate or fast warship. [2] The etymology was mentioned by French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre when describing the bird in 1667.
A peacock spreading his tail, displaying his plumagePeahen. Peafowlis a common name for two bird species of the genus Pavoand one species of the closely related genus Afropavowithin the tribe Pavoniniof the family Phasianidae(the pheasants and their allies). Male peafowl are referred to as peacocks, and female peafowl are referred to as peahens.
Female Albert's lyrebird. The lyrebirds are large passerine birds, amongst the largest in the order. They are ground living birds with strong legs and feet and short rounded wings. They are poor fliers and rarely fly except for periods of downhill gliding. [ 7] The superb lyrebird is the larger of the two species.