moderately common resident of the coolest parts of south-eastern
Australia, including Tasmania. First described by the French naturalists
Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830, it is often
simply but inaccurately called the Robin Redbreast. Like many brightly
coloured robins of the Petroicidae, it is sexually dimorphic. Measuring
12–14 cm (5–6 in) long, the Flame Robin has dark brown eyes and a
small thin black bill. The male has a brilliant orange-red chest and
throat, and a white patch on the forehead above the bill. Its upper
parts are iron-grey with white bars, and its tail black with white tips.
The female is a nondescript grey-brown. Its song has been described as
the most musical of its genus, and it employs song and plumage displays
to mark out and defend its territory. It mostly breeds in and around the
Great Dividing Range, the Tasmanian highlands and islands in Bass
Strait. With the coming of cooler autumn weather, most birds disperse to
lower and warmer areas. Classified by BirdLife International as Near
Threatened, the species has suffered a marked decline in the past
25 years.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_Robin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
English nobleman Edward Stafford, whose father had been
beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III, was himself executed
for treason against King Henry VIII.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stafford,_3rd_Duke_of_Buckingham>
1792:
Twenty-four stock brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement to
establish the New York Stock Exchange.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange>
1863:
Rosalía de Castro published Cantares gallegos, a collection of
her poetry, the first book in the Galician language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosal%C3%ADa_de_Castro>
1954:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown v.
Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in public schools
because "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education>
1980:
On the eve of the Peruvian general election, the Maoist
guerrilla group Shining Path attacked a polling location in the town of
Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the internal conflict in Peru.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_conflict_in_Peru>
2009:
Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected the first female President of
Lithuania, receiving 68.18 percent of the vote.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_Grybauskait%C4%97>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
morpheme:
(linguistics) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry
a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word
"unbreakable".
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morpheme>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing
everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. ... You have to
dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I
feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with
the end result.
--Enya
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Enya>
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