family Maluridae. It is non-migratory, and endemic to the southwestern
corner of Western Australia. The sexes are dimorphic: females, juveniles
and non-breeding males have predominantly grey-brown plumage, but
breeding males adopt brilliant colours, with an iridescent silvery-blue
crown and upper back, red-brown shoulders, a black throat, grey-brown
wings and pale underparts. Though the red-winged fairywren is locally
common, there is evidence of a decline in numbers. Primarily
insectivorous, it forages and lives in the shelter of scrubby vegetation
in temperate wetter forests dominated by the karri (Eucalyptus
diversicolor), remaining close to cover to avoid predators. Like other
fairywrens, it is a cooperative breeding species, with small groups of
birds maintaining and defending small territories year-round. Groups
consist of a socially monogamous pair with several helper birds who
assist in raising the young.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_fairywren>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
786:
Harun al-Rashid became the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his
brother al-Hadi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid>
1752:
In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the
Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days:
(September 2 was followed directly by September 14).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750>
1914:
HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was
lost at sea; its wreck has never been found.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_AE1>
1975:
Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first native-born citizen of the
United States to be canonized.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann_Seton>
2007:
Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a
liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank
run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
entrench:
1. (archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
2. (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense;
to dig in.
3. (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business,
politics, etc.
4. To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take
possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or
upon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/entrench>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an
irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely;
hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful
counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are
closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.
--Sydney J. Harris
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris>
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