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 Estrildid finch - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Estrildid finch
Any of a group of small, mainly African, seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, which also includes the grass finches of Australia.
Waxbills grow to 15 cm/6 in long, are brown and grey with yellow, red, or brown markings, and have waxy-looking red or pink beaks.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Estrildid+finch   (132 words)

  
 Southern Wings Exotic Finches
We got our first finches in 1980 but due to having to move several times we phased them out until last year when we were able to renew our love for these tiny unique birds.
Caring for finches as a rule is not difficult and they can be kept inside or in an outside aviary providing care is taken in colder climates.
Finches do not do well alone that is why they are sold in pairs.
www.dabarn.net /s-wing/finches.html   (482 words)

  
 Jacket 28 - October 2005 - Annie Finch: Excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Section 4: "Feeding the Admiral's ...
She is also known as a translator and librettist; her translation of the complete poems of Renaissance poet Louise Labé is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, Early Modern Women Writers series.
Her collection of essays, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self was recently published in the Poets on Poetry Series from the University of Michigan Press.
Finch earned a BA from Yale, MA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and PhD in English from Stanford, and is now Director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA at the University of Southern Maine.
www.jacketmagazine.com /28/finch.html   (509 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. John Finch
His zeal drew on him the hostility of the authorities, and at Christmas, 1581, he was entrapped into bringing a priest, George Ostliffe, to a place where both were apprehended.
It was given out that Finch, having betrayed the priest and other Catholics, had taken refuge with the Earl of Derby, but in fact, he was kept in the earl's house as a prisoner, sometimes tortured and sometimes bribed in order to pervert him and induce him to give information.
This failing, he was removed to the Fleet prison at Manchester and afterwards to the House of Correction.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06076b.htm   (373 words)

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