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	Pallas (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pallas, son of Evander, king of Latium, killed by Turnus, king of the Rutuli and avenged by his ally Aeneas.
		Pallas, daughter of Triton, playmate of the young Athena, accidentally killed by the goddess who then made a statue in her image, the Palladium.
		In astronomy, 2 Pallas is one of the earliest-discovered asteroids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pallas_(disambiguation) (244 words)

	Peter Simon Pallas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of a Professor of Surgery.
		In 1767 Pallas was invited by Catherine II of Russia to became a professor at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and between 1769 and 1774 he led an expedition to Siberia collecting natural history specimens on their behalf.
		In 1772 Pallas was shown a 700 kilogram lump of metal which had been found near to the city of Krasnoyarsk.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Peter_Simon_Pallas (442 words)

	Pallas - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Pallas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pallas was the playmate of Athena, a daughter of the god Triton (or Tritonis), her foster-father.
		One day, while Pallas and Athena were sparring, Zeus appeared between them with the aegis and Pallas, in her fear, forgot to parry a blow from Athena.
		The last Pallas is the son of Lycaon and founder of the Arcadian town of Pallantion.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Pallas.html (324 words)

	Peter Simon Pallas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Simon Pallas (September 22, 1741, Berlin - September 8, 1811), Berlin was a (A person of German nationality) German (A specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals) zoologist and (A biologist specializing in the study of plants) botanist, who was also famous in Russia.
		Pallas was born at (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) Berlin, the son of a Professor of Surgery.
		In 1772 Pallas was shown a 700 kilogram lump of metal which had been found near to the city of (Click link for more info and facts about Krasnoyarsk) Krasnoyarsk.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_simon_pallas.htm (404 words)

	Reed Bunting Breeding Male
		Reed Bunting Breeding Male: Medium-sized finch with dark-streaked brown upperparts and faintly streaked, white underparts.
		Reed Bunting: Four to six purple eggs with grayish pink markings and splotches are laid in a nest of dried grasses and moss, with lining of hair, flowers, and fine grasses on the ground sheltered by a small brush or low shrub.
		Reed Bunting: Similar to this bird is the Pallas's Bunting which has a smaller straight bill, brownish gray upperparts with flish brown streaking; brownish gray wing coverts; white supercilium.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/697/target.aspx (615 words)

	Biography of Peter Simon Pallas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Simon Pallas (September 22, 1741 - September 8, 1811) was a German-born Russian zoologist.
		This new type of meteorites are called Pallasites after him whereas the meteorite itself is today named Krasnoyarsk or sometimes also called Pallas Iron (the name given to it by Ernst Chladni in 1794).
		A number of animals are named after him, including Pallas's Cat, Pallas's Warbler, Pallas's Gull, Pallas's Sandgrouse and Pallas's Reed Bunting.
	p.qardinalinfo.com /Pallas_Peter_Simon.html (343 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Pallas' Reed Bunting
		The Pallas's Reed Bunting, Emberiza pallasi, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.
		It is common in tundra scrub by water, and also breeds in drier open areas such as open larch forest.
		The Pallas's Reed Bunting is a small passerine bird, similar to a small Reed Bunting.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Pallas's_Reed_Bunting (366 words)

	Bunting (bird) - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palaearctic: Buntings and New World Warblers (Handbook of the...
		Sparrows and Buntings: A Guide to the Sparrows and Buntings of North America and the World
		Female buntings from hybridizing populations prefer conspecific males.
	www.unipedia.info /Bunting.html (278 words)

	Plectrophenax nivalis
		The sight of a flock of Snow Buntings tumbling down to rest with their white wings flashing makes it obvious why they are sometimes given the country name of Snowflakes.
		In winter some Snow Buntings can look surprisingly drab on the ground, but most show rather gingery brown colours with variable amounts of white visible on their bellies and wings and around their faces.
		Breeds throughout the tundra areas of Scandinavia but is generally much harder to find than the Lapland Bunting, perhaps because they require the stonier areas which tend to be mostly around the summits of hills.
	www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Plectrophenax_nivalis.htm (362 words)

	Pallas's Bunting Breeding Male (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Frequents reed beds in wetlands, lakes, and along streams in taiga and tundra.
		Pallas's Bunting: Four to five pink eggs with dark spots are laid in a cup nest of grasses and moss, lined with finer materials.
		Pallas's Bunting: Similar to this bird is Reed Bunting, which is larger, with larger bill, rufous-brown upperparts with fl streaking and rufous wing covers in winter plumage.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/707/target.aspx (494 words)

	BUNTING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the BUNTING Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the BUNTING Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named BUNTING at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/B/BUNTING.htm (73 words)

	Emberiza schoeniclus
		In summer the head of the male Reed Bunting is jet fl apart from neat white moustachial streaks.
		This moustached appearance is quite striking in all Reed Buntings, even the females and immatures, which otherwise look heavily streaked - rich brown above and dirty white below.
		220 000 Reed Bunting territories have been estimated for Britain with 130 000 for Ireland.
	www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Emberiza_schoeniclus.htm (210 words)

	Bird watching trip report - Eastern China - surfbirds.com
		Mr Wang assured us that Reed Parrotbill was no problem and sure enough the adjacent reed bed held a small flock (15-20) of them.
		We watched these confiding, charismatic and quite charming birds for some time calling and singing, clinging to the reed stalks or scuttling around at the base of the reeds.
		We drove north of the Reserve and stopped on the road overlooking a vast area of marsh and reeds.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/china-east-0404.html (2995 words)

	Loesung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These features can be found at Stonechats and Reed Buntings.
		The extremely rare Pallas Reed Bunting can be excluded aswell, because they would show a paler rump and perhaps a yellowish tone to the white nape, as Brian Stone correctly mentioned.
		Therefore it must be a Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus).
	www.bavarianbirds.de /loes3_00_e.htm (121 words)

	Parapolsky Dol management plan, Russian Federation: file 2
		White-tailed Eagle is a widespread species, but its population and distribution are associated with long-boled trees, which can hold a heavy nest of the bird.
		Among the species of this group are Gray Wagtail, Great Knot, Wheatear, Snow Bunting, and others (13 species, 8.6%).
		Wd –Birds that are widespread in the region – are the species that are not related to a definite nesting station, have "hunting territories" (large birds - Falcon, Raven) and use various food.
	www.ramsar.org /wurc/wurc_mgtplan_russia2b.htm (1416 words)

	Gobi Lakes Traverse - and its birdlife
		Commonly seen birds on a trip in Mongolia are Whooper Swan, Swan Goose, Demoiselle Crane, Upland Buzzard, Red-billed Chough, Marsh Sandpiper, Steppe Eagle, Dusky Warbler, Citrine Wagtail, Mongolian Finch, Palla's Leaf-Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Rufous-tailed Rock Trush, Pied and Isabelline Wheatear, Asian Short-toed and Mongolian Lark, Ruddy Shelduck, Pacific Swift, Mongolian Finch, Dusky Warbler.
		White-winged Snow finch, Sulphur-bellied Warbler, Godlewski's and Chestnut-eared Bunting, Evermann's Redstart.
		The endemic Hodgson's Bushchat will perhaps be possible somewhere around here, and high mountain species such as Willow and Rock Ptarmigan, Pallas's Reed and Grey-necked Bunting, Plain Mountain Finch, Altai Snowcock, Eurasian Dotterel, Hill Pigeon, Himalayan Accentor, Brandt's Finch, Güldenstädt's Redstart, and Red-billed Chough.
	www.nomadicjourneys.com /trips/birding/gobilake_traverse.asp (2271 words)

	JapanITIN
		Depart before dawn to be in position on Lake Izunuma to witness the spectacle of several thousand Greater White-fronted Geese departing their nighttime roost.
		Today we visit different vantage points around the rice fields of Arasaki to see one of the world’s largest flocks of cranes, usually in excess of 10,000—a highlight of the trip.
		In the farmland around Arasaki, we may see such species as the extremely rare Black-faced Spoonbill, Osprey, Pallas’ Reed Bunting, and corvids such as Daurian Jackdaw and Rook.
	www.siemerhand.com /Group/Japan/JapanITIN/japanitin.html (926 words)

	China 2004 trip page 2
		The primary purpose of our visit was the hope to find Jankowski's Bunting, a Chinese near-endemic now listed as Vulnerable by Birdlife International (2000).
		Rather little is known about this species — sometimes called Rufous-backed Bunting — although it was a Chinese researcher who took us to this singing male (right), so someone is doing studies.
		It is a beautiful little bunting with a prominent belly patch.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/China2004b.html (1357 words)

	OBSERVATIONS OF ASIATIC MIGRANTS IN THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS
		For example, from 18 to 22 May 1980, I observed several large flocks of Bramblings with an assortment of other species (e.g., Rustic Bunting, Hawfinch, Oriental Greenfinch, Red-throated and Olive tree-pipits) arriving daily.
		For example, about 2000 on 26 May along the coast at Murder Point, Dan Gibson found an Eye- browed Thrush that had recently arrived.
		2100) of 29 May also at Murder Point, Ben King found a Gray Bunting that was exhausted and behaved as if it had just arrived.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v059n02/p0101-p0109.html (2744 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from South Korea
		Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus. One heard on 10th in reeds at the Geum River constitutes presumably the first winter record in Korea (a second was found in January 2002 on the south coast)
		Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans. Korea’s commonest breeding bunting. Also very numerous in winter in suitable habitat.
		Pallas’s Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi. Typically rather numerous. Surprisingly, only recorded on 3 dates, with 4 on 10th the maximum.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/s-korea/korea3/korea-dec2001.htm (3541 words)

	South Korea, December 6-17 2001:
		Recorded almost daily, with about 250 on 14th at Joonam (including 200 in one flock exploding like feathery fireworks out of a single clump of reeds!).
		One heard on 10th in reeds at the Geum River constitutes presumably the first winter record in Korea (a second was found in January 2002 on the south coast)
		Lapland Bunting Calacarius lapponicus, Very numerous in extensive, open winter paddy.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/asiakorea-dec2001touraccount.htm (3491 words)

	Po Yang 2000
		However very soon it became obvious that the captain of the barge was unhappy at having to travel in the fog and was not quite sure where we were.
		We landed on the riverbank and discovered a large area of reeds, which quickly produced Japanese Marsh Warbler.
		Woke again to even thicker fog and decided it was pointless taking the barge out to the lakes so spent the morning birding the fields, paddies and small woods around Wu Chen.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Poyang00.html (1503 words)

	ABA Checklist and Updates
		Olive Warbler is placed in its own family preceding the Wood-warblers.
		Cardinals, Buntings, and Grosbeaks become a separate family and follow the New World Sparrows.
		Additionally, there are many changes of scientific names at family and genus levels and a few at species level.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bbowman/birds/updates (1165 words)

	Birding in east Kazakhstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the high mountain meadows Altai Snowcock, Solitary Snipe and Plain, Brandt's and Arctic Mountain Finches all breed.
		River valleys and around wetlands provide breeding grounds for Pintail, Swinhoe's and Great Snipe, Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler and Pallas' Reed Bunting.
		In addition, many transit migrants are more regular in the east of Kazakhstan than in other parts, for example, Red-necked and Long-toed Stints, Asian Dowitcher, Siberian Accentor and Rustic Bunting.
	birding.topcities.com /overview/east.htm (464 words)

	Asiana Airlines - Travel Planner : Travel Guide - GoCity
		Chestnut Bunting: over 400 a day of this over-colorful species have been recorded on Gageo Island.
		Raptor migration includes large concentrations of Chinese Goshawk making their way towards Japan (where 59 000 have been recorded in one day on the Japanese Daema or Tsushima Island, only 40 km south of Busan!), along with smaller flocks of Grey-faced and Oriental Honey Buzzards.
		Pale, White's, and small numbers of Dusky Thrushes are also on the move, along with the first of the typical winter passerines, Brambling and Siskin.
	uk.flyasiana.com /travelplanner/travelplanner_sightseeing_birdwatching_year03.asp (836 words)

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		In the vicinity of the reserve were several other birds exotic to us, most notably Ruddy Crake, Water Rail, Painted Snipe, Long-toed Stint, Red-throated Pipit, Little Bunting and Daurian Jackdaw.
		We couldn't find the Eurasian Spoonbill which had been in the area (tidal?).
		We ran out of time and couldn't find any of the starlings or Pallas's Reed Bunting.
	www.cs.le.ac.uk /people/ferjan/BIRDS/mikexlee/Kyushu.html (609 words)

	Pallas Reed Bunting Moult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dear everybody, There is something special I like to hear about and that is if somebody can give me any information about male (or female) Pallas Reed Bunting.
		In Particular if anybody ever saw a moulting male PRB and even better in spring.
		But any thing that can help me with identification is welcome.
	www.worldtwitch.com /cgi-bin/index.pl/noframes/read/56 (66 words)

	Mongolia Wildlife Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mongolia is a land of limitless steppe and desert, a country of vast mountain ranges with numerous peaks above 3,000m, immense conifer forests, oceanic expanses of lush grassland, and some of the worldÌs most pristine rivers and lakes.
		On several nights we will camp overnight in 'gers', the traditional felt tents of the nomadic herders.
		The surrounding Taiga forests will be explored as we search for Wryneck, Black Woodpecker, Red-throated, Siberian and other thrushes, Yellow-browed and Pallas's Warblers, Eversmann's Redstart and Hawfinch.
	www.naturalist.co.uk /tours2002/mongolia.html (1288 words)

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