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Black Stump The Australian expression 'black stump' is the name for an imaginary point beyond which the country is considered remote or uncivilised, an abstract marker of the limits of established settlement.  The origin of the expression, especially in its evolved use as an imaginary marker in the landscape, is contested.
Black Sun (Edward Abbey novel) Black Sun is a 1971 novel by Edward Abbey about a rugged forest fire lookout who falls in love with an American girl half his age and then becomes wrongly blamed when she mysteriously disappears in the National Park where he works.
Black Sun Empire Recordings Black Sun Empire Recordings is a Dutch drum and bass record label run by (until recently) a relatively unknown group called Black Sun Empire. This record label mainly releases material from the Black Sun Empire group, however the label has released material for various artists such as: Ill.
Black Sun Press Black Sun Press was a book publisher founded in 1927 as Éditions Narcisse by poet Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse, who at the time were expatriates living in Paris. The name was changed to Black Sun Press the following year.
Black Swan The Black Swan, Cygnus atratus is a large non-migratory waterbird which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest of Australia. It is also found along the east coast of Australia, Tasmania and recently reintroduced in New Zealand.
Black Swan class sloop The Black Swan class and Modified Black Swan class were two classes of sloop of the Royal Navy and Royal Indian Navy. Eight Black Swans were launched between 1939 and 1943; twenty-nine modified Black Swans were launched between 1942 and 1945.
Black Swan Network Black Swan Network is a musical side project of The Olivia Tremor Control. With contributions from Neutral Milk Hotel members Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster, as well as individual contributions from Kirk Pleasant of Calvin, Don't Jump!
Black tie Black tie is a dress code for formal evening events. Its primary component is the dinner jacket as it is known in the United Kingdom, the northeastern United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Republic of Ireland.
Black tiger (animal) A Black tiger is a rare colour variant of the Tiger and is not a distinct species or geographic race. There are unconfirmed reports and one painting (now lost) of pure black non-striped tigers (true melanistic tigers), but no physical evidence.
Black toad The black toad (Bufo exsul), also known as the Deep Springs black toad, lives only in scattered oases in the Deep Springs Valley of Inyo County, California. In fact, its scientific name Bufo exsul means "exiled toad," which refers to its species' isolation in a tiny spot in the high desert wilderness of the Great Basin.
Black triggerfish The black triggerfish, Melichthys niger, called Humuhumu'ele'ele in Hawaiian, is a blimp-shaped triggerfish with bright white lines running along its dorsal and anal fins. When in the water, it appears to be completely black.
Black Talon Black Talon was a brand of handgun ammunition that was produced by the Winchester/Olin Arms Company for a short-period during the 1990's. The Black Talon brand was available in many common calibers including: .
Black Technology Black Technology is a general term used to describe fictional technology in the Japanese light novel, manga and anime series Full Metal Panic!. Full Metal Panic takes places within a parallel world altered by this so called Black Technology.
Black Templars In the game Warhammer 40,000, the Black Templars are a Second Founding chapter derived from the Imperial Fists and their Primarch, Rogal Dorn. Their origin can be traced back to the Imperial Fists’ defence of Holy Terra.
Black Terror The Black Terror is a fictional character and a superhero who originally appeared in Exciting Comics #9, published by Nedor Comics in 1941. Some Black Terror stories were written by Patricia Highsmith before she became an acclaimed novelist.
Black Tiger (rapper) Black Tiger, born Urs Baur, is the first rapper to rap in a Swiss German dialect, namely Basel German. Those now legendary rhymes appeared on the track "Murder by Dialect" (1991), by P27 featuring Black Tiger.
Black Tom Cassidy "Black Tom" Cassidy (real name Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men, and archenemy of Banshee. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, he first fully appeared in Uncanny X-Men #101 (October 1976).
Black Tortoise (Chinese constellation) The Black Tortoise (, literally "Black Warrior") is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It is sometimes called the Black Warrior of the North (北方玄武), and it represents the north and the winter season.
Black Trip (album) Black Trip DVD from Swiss Industrial metal band Samael is a double DVD set which contains a concert held on Summer Breeze Festival (2002), live concert held in Krakow, Poland, in 1996 during their "Passage" world tour and also a bootleg concert shot in Illinois (USA) during the "Ceremony Of Opposites" tour. There are also video clips for the songs Jupiterian Vibe, Infra Galaxia and Baphomet's Throne as well as some interviews and footage shot at Woodhouse Studios during the making of Passage album.
Black Uhuru Black Uhuru, formed by Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, is a Jamaican reggae band probably best known for their hits "Shine Eye Gal", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "Sinsemilla," "Solidarity," and Grammy Winner "What Is Life?".
Black Unicorn Split The Black Unicorn Split is a split CD from He Is Legend and the alternative rock band Classic Case. It was released June 6, 2006 on Future Tense Records to promote the Black Unicorn Tour consisting of bands such as He Is Legend and The Fall of Troy.
Black Veil Black Veil, in the Roman Catholic Church, the symbol of the most complete renunciation of the world and adoption of a nun's life. On the appointed day the nun goes through all the ritual of the marriage ceremony, after a solemn mass at which all the inmates of the convent assist.
Black Vein Prophecy Black Vein Prophecy (ISBN 0-14-034057-2) is a single player roleplaying gamebook written by Paul Mason and Steve Williams, illustrated by Terry Oakes and originally published in 1990. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 42 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the Wizard reissuing.
Black Velvet (song) "Black Velvet" is a rock and roll song written by Canadian musicians David Tyson and Christopher Ward and first recorded by Canadian singer Alannah Myles in 1989. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on Saturday, March 24, 1990.
Black Volta Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river of western Africa rising in western Burkina Faso and flowing about 1,352 km (840 mi) to the White Volta in Ghana. The Black Volta forms a small part of the boundary between Ghana and Ivory Coast, and also a section of border between Ghana and Burkina Faso.
Black Walnut The Black Walnut or American Walnut (Juglans nigra L.) is a native of eastern North America, where it grows, mostly alongside rivers, from southern Ontario, Canada west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central Texas.
Black War The Black War refers to a period of conflict between the British colonists and Tasmanian Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in the early years of the 1800s. The conflict has gained a notorious reputation as a genocide resulting in the almost complete obliteration of the Tasmanian Aboriginal population, though there are presently many thousands of individuals descended of Tasmanian Aborigines.
Black Warrior Affair The Black Warrior, a vessel in the American coastwise trade, touched at Havana, Cuba on February 28, 1854, on her eighteenth voyage to New York City. In technical conformity with law, but contrary to informal agreements, a cargo manifest was demanded.
Black Warrior River The Black Warrior River is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, approximately 178 mi (286 km) long, in west central Alabama in the United States. It drains an area of 6,275 sq mi (16,250 km²) with its upper watershed encompassing a forested area of high bluffs at the extreme southern end of the Appalachian Mountains north and west of the city of Birmingham.
Black Web Awards Presented by Linton Publishing, LLC, the Black Web Awards (BWA’s) are a set of awards presented to the websites with African, African American and Caribbean themed content. 2006 will mark the first year for the awards.
Black Wednesday In British politics and economics, Black Wednesday refers to 16 September 1992 when the Conservative government of the day was forced to withdraw the Pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) due to pressure by currency speculators—most notably George Soros who made over US$1 billion from this speculation. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.
Black Week Black Week is a phrase frequently used in the popular press to mark periods of a few days when a string of similar unfortunate events occur. Its celebrity usually fades to be replaced by another Black Week a few years later.
Black Wheatear The Black Wheatear, Oenanthe leucura, is a wheatear, a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.
Black Widow (1987 film) Black Widow is a 1987 film starring Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, and Dennis Hopper, about two women: one who murders wealthy men whom she marries for their money, and the other an FBI agent who grows obsessed with bringing her to justice. It was directed by Bob Rafelson, from a screenplay by Ronald Bass.
Black Widow (Timely Comics) Black Widow (Claire Voyant) is the name of a supernaturally powered fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe, known as one of the first costumed, superpowered female protagonists. An antihero who killed evildoers in order to deliver their souls to Satan, her master, she first appeared in Mystic Comics #4 (August 1940), published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics.
Black Widow Games Black Widow Games is a computer games developer specializing in promotional mods for Quake and Half-Life 3D engines. Prominent members include Neil Manke (Game & Level Design), Einar Saukas (Game Design & Coding), and Magnus Jansén (Game Consultant & Sound Engineer).
Black Widowers The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of mystery stories he wrote starting in 1971. Most of the stories were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, though a few first appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the various book collections into which the stories were eventually gathered.
Black Wildebeest The Black Wildebeest or White-tailed gnu (Connochaetes gnou) is one of two gnu species. The natural populations of this species, endemic to the southern region of Africa, have been almost completely exterminated, but the species has been reintroduced widely, both in private areas and nature reserves throughout most of Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa and Namibia, also introduced outside its natural range (Wilson & Reeder, 1993; East, 1989, 1996).
Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham is a 2001 book written by David Montgomery, Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, in collaboration with Horace Huntley of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The book makes use of oral histories to explain the interactions between African-American workers and labor unions in the post-Civil War American South.
Black World Wide Web protest On February 1, 1996, a large number of web sites were turned black for 48 hours as a protest against the passing of the Communications Decency Act in the United States. The Turn the Web Black protest, also called Black Thursday, was a joint effort by a number of civil liberties groups, including the Voters Telecommunications Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Black XXX-Mas Black XXX-Mas is a 1999 short film by Belgian filmmaker Pieter Van Hees about a poor family on Christmas Eve, in a story that loosely follows Little Red Riding Hood. It stars Rochelle Gadd, Don Warrington, and Manou Kersting.
Black Zero In DC Comics Superman titles Black Zero is a name shared by a pre-Crisis supervillain, a post-Crisis terrorist organization and two supervillains inspired by that organization. All have a connection to Superman's home planet of Krypton.
Black's equation Black's Equation is a mathematical model for the mean time between failure of a semiconductor circuit due to electromigration: a phenomenon of molecular rearrangement (movement) in the solid phase caused by an electromagnetic field.
Black-and-white Black-and-white is a broad adjectival term used to describe a number of monochrome forms of visual arts. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses.
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill The Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill, Bycanistes subcylindricus also known as Grey-cheeked Hornbill is a large, up to 70cm long, black and white hornbill. It has an over-sized blackish bill with large casque on top.
Black-billed Amazon The Black-billed Amazon, Amazona agilis, is a parrot endemic to Jamaica. Sometimes called the Black-billed Parrot, this Amazon parrot is mostly green with small patches of red on the wing and sometimes flecked on the head.
Black-billed Magpie The Black-billed Magpie is a large bird in the crow family that occurs in the western half of North America from Alaska to Oklahoma. Externally, it is almost identical with European Magpie, Pica pica, and is considered conspecific by many sources.
Black-billed Nightingale-thrush The Black-billed Nightingale-thrush, Catharus gracilirostris, is a small thrush endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its position in the genus Catharus is somewhat equivocal, but it is apparently closer to the Hermit Thrush than to the other nightingale-thrushes except the Russet Nightingale-thrush and/or the Ruddy-capped Nightingale-thrush (Winker & Pruett, 2006).
Black-billed Sicklebill The Black-billed Sicklebill, Epimachus albertisi also known as Buff-tailed Sicklebill is a medium-sized, up to 35cm long, brown bird of paradise. The male has a bare maroon grey skin around its eye, buff colored tail, dark brown iris, yellow mouth and black sickle-like bill.
Black-billed Turaco The Black-billed Turaco, Tauraco schuetti, is a medium sized turaco, an endemic family to sub-Saharan Africa. It is a resident breeder in the forests of central Africa, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, West Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and southern Sudan.
Black-breasted Buzzard The Black-breasted Buzzard, Hamirostra melanosternon is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae and the monotypic genus Hamirostra. Its wing length ranges between 440-500 mm, with females being larger.
Black-capped Kingfisher The Black-capped Kingfisher, Halcyon pileata, is a tree kingfisher which is widely distributed in tropical Asia from India east to China, Korea and Southeast Asia. This most northerly of the Halcyonidae is resident over much of its range, but northern populations are migratory and the wintering range extends to Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo and Java.
Black-crested Antshrike The Black-crested Antshrike, Sakesphorus canadensis, is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is a resident breeder in tropical South America in Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Brazil and northeastern Peru.
Black-crested Titmouse The Black-crested Titmouse, Baeolophus atricristatus (also known as the Mexican Titmouse), is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Once considered a subspecies of the Tufted Titmouse (B.
Black-Derman-Toy Black-Derman-Toy, or BDT, in finance, is a model of the evolution of the yield curve, sometimes referred to as an interest-rate derivatives model. It is a one-factor model in which the single stochastic factor that determines the future evolution of all interest rates is the short rate, the interest rate for the shortest maturity possible on the yield curve.
Black-eared Miner The Black-eared Miner, Manorina melanotis, is a critically endangered honeyeater endemic to mallee woodland in south-eastern Australia. It is closely related to the much more widely distributed Yellow-throated Miner M.
Black-eared Wheatear The Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica) is a wheatear, a small migratory passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.
Black-eyed pea The black-eyed pea, also called black-eyed bean, blackeye, field peas, lobiya, rongi or chawli, is a subspecies of the cowpea, grown for its medium-sized edible bean, which mutates easily giving rise to a number of varieties, the common commercial one called the California Blackeye being pale-colored with a prominent black spot. The currently accepted botanical name is Vigna unguiculata subsp.
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes The Black-Eyed Susan Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland each year. The race is open to three-year-old fillies willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt and offers a purse of $250,000.
Black-faced Cormorant The Black-faced Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscescens), also known as the Black-faced Shag, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. Upperparts, including facial skin and bill, are black, with white underparts.
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Coracina novaehollandiae also called a Large Cuckoo-shrike, is a common bird in Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has a protected status in Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974.
Black-faced Grassquit The Black-faced Grassquit, Tiaris bicolor, is a small bird of the family Emberizidae, which also includes the buntings. It breeds in the West Indies except Cuba, on Tobago but not Trinidad, and along the northern coasts of Colombia and Venezuela.
Black-faced Monarch The Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis is a passerine bird. It was previously classified with the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now normally grouped with the drongos in the family Dicruridae, which has most of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia.
Black-faced Spoonbill The Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor) has the most restricted distribution of all spoonbills, and it is the only one currently regarded as endangered. Confined to the coastal areas of eastern Asia, it seems that it was once common throughout its area of distribution.
Black-figure pottery The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Greek pottery painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a red background. Originated in Corinth during the early 7th century BC, it was introduced into Attica about a generation later.
Black-footed Cat The Black-footed Cat (Felis nigripes) is a small wild cat distributed over South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and marginally into Zimbabwe. The habitat of this cat species are arid semi-desert and savannah, like the Karoo and parts of the highveld, but it is only sparsely distributued in Kalahari Desert.
Black-footed Ferret The Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) is a small carnivorous North American mammal closely related to the Steppe Polecat of Russia, and a member of the diverse family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, mink, polecats, martens, otters, and badgers. It should not be confused with the domesticated ferret.
Black-fronted Dotterel The Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia and New Zealand. It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes and billabongs, and in shallow, temporary claypan pools.
Black-headed Grosbeak The Black-headed Grosbeak, Pheucticus melanocephalus, is a medium-size seed-eating bird in the same family as the Northern Cardinal, the Cardinalidae. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, P.
Black-headed Gull The Black-headed Gull, (Larus ridibundus), is a small gull which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory, wintering further south, but some birds in the milder westernmost areas of Europe are resident.
Black-headed Heron The Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, common throughout much of Africa south of the Sahara, and Madagascar. It is mainly resident but some west African birds move further north in the rainy season.
Black-headed Ibis The Black-headed Ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus) is a species of wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae, which breeds in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Japan. It builds a stick nest in a tree and lays 2-4 eggs.
Black-headed Lapwing The Black-headed Plover or Black-headed Lapwing (Vanellus tectus) is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae. It is a resident breeder across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia, although it has seasonal movements.
Black-headed Munia The Black-headed Munia, or Chestnut Munia (Lonchura atricapilla, formerly Lonchura malacca atricapilla) is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines.
Black-headed Uakari The Black-headed Uakari (Cacajao melanocephalus) is a New World primate from the Pitheciidae family. It is native from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, living in the Amazon Rainforest, specially in the seasonally flooded forests called "igapos".
Black-hooded Parakeet The Black-hooded Parakeet (Nandayus nenday) is also known as the Nanday Parakeet or Nanday Conure. The bird is native to South America from southeast Bolivia to southwest Brazil, central Paraguay and northern Argentina.
Black-chested Snake-eagle The Black-chested Snake-eagle (Circaetus pectoralis) is a large african bird of prey of the accipitridae family. It greatly ressembles other Snake-eagles and was once believed to be conspecific with the Short-toed eagle and Beaudouin's Snake-eagle.
Black-chinned Fruit-dove The Black-chinned Fruit-dove, Ptilinopus leclancheri also known as the Black-throated Fruit-dove or Leclancher's Dove is a medium-sized, up to 27cm long, bird of the Columbidae family. The male is a colorful bird with a green belly and wings, a brown tail, a whitish grey head and neck with a purple base, red iris and a small black patch under its yellow bill.
Black-legged Dart Frog The Black-legged Dart Frog (Phyllobates bicolor), also known as the bicolored dart frog or Neari in Choco, is the second most toxic of the wild poison dart frogs. This species obtained its name due to its normally yellow or orange body with black or dark blue hindlegs and forelimbs below the elbow.
Black-naped Fruit-dove The Black-naped Fruit-dove, Ptilinopus melanospilus also known as Black-headed Fruit-dove is a medium-sized, up to 24cm long, green fruit-dove with yellowish bill and iris. The male has a pale grey head with black nape, yellow throat, and golden yellow and pink undertail coverts.
Black-naped Monarch The Black-naped Monarch (Hypothymis azurea), also known as the Black-naped Blue Monarch, is a small passerine bird. It was previously classified with the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now normally grouped with the drongos in the family Dicruridae, which has most of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia.
Black-naped Oriole The Black-naped Oriole, Oriolus chinensis, is a member of the oriole family of passerine birds found in south Asia. This is easily differentiated from the Golden Oriole by the broad black eye stripe continuing to join on the nape.
Black-necked Crane The Black-necked Crane, Grus nigricollis also known as Tibetan Crane is a large, up to 139cm long, whitish-gray crane with a black head, red crown patch, black upper neck and legs, and white patch to the rear of the eye. It has black primaries and secondaries.
Black-necked Stilt The Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, is a locally abundant resident of American wetlands and coastlines, from the coastal areas of California, much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida D. A.
Black-necked Stork The Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species, which is a resident breeder in southern Asia and Australasia, from India east to New Guinea and the northern half of Australia.
Black-shouldered Opossum The Black-shouldered Opossum (Caluromysiops irrupta), also known as the White-eared Opossum is an opossum species from South America. It's found in multistrata evergreen Amazonian forests of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
Black-spot goatfish The black-spot goatfish, Parupeneus signatus, is a goatfish of the family Mullidae, found in the western Pacific ocean, from north east New Zealand to New Guinea, in shallow waters. Its length is between 20 and 50 cm.
Black-spotted Sticky Frog The Black-spotted Sticky Frog (Kalophrynus pleurostigma) is a small frog with a black spot just in front of each of its hind legs. It releases a sticky substance when threatened, thereby making it an unpleasant meal for predators, allowing it to escape from harm.
Black-striped mussel The black-striped mussel, Mytilopsis sallei, is a small marine bivalve mollusc originating from Central and South America. It is closely related and ecologically similar to the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha.
Black-striped Weasel The Black-striped Weasel (Mustela strigidorsa) is one of the most enigmatic mammals in the north-east Oriental region, even though it occurs from Nepal east through north east India and southern China to Vietnam, and south to central Laos at altitudes from 1000m to 2500m.Choudhury, A.
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher The Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Polioptila melanura) is a small, insectivorous bird which ranges throughout the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is nonmigratory and found in arid desert areas year-round.
Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine The Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine, Sphiggurus melanurus, is a South American porcupine species from the Erethizontidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Black-tailed Tityra The Black-tailed Tityra, Tityra cayana, is a medium-sized passerine bird. It was formerly placed in the cotinga family, but is now usually treated as a tyrant flycatcher, although Stiles and Skutch separate the tityras as part of a separate family, the Tityridae.
Black-throated Mango The Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) is a hummingbird that breeds from Panama south to northeasterm Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina. It is also common on both Trinidad and Tobago.
Black-throated Munia The Black-throated Munia or Jerdon's Mannikin (Lonchura kelaarti) is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in the hills of southwest India, the Eastern Ghats and Sri Lanka.
Black-throated Sparrow The Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata) is a small sparrow primarily found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It is sometimes referred to as the Desert Sparrow, due to its preferred habitat of arid desert scrub.
Black-Throated Wind "Black-Throated Wind" is the second track off of Bob Weir's solo debut Ace. The song was written by Weir and lyricist John Perry Barlow about the experiences Barlow had on a road trip from New York to San Francisco in 1971.
Black-veined White The Black-veined White, (Aporia crataegi), is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It normally lives in orchards and bushes throughout most of Europe and northern Africa, although it is currently extinct in the British Isles.
Black-whiskered Vireo The Black-whiskered Vireo, Vireo altiloquus, is a small passerine bird, which breeds in southern Florida, USA, and the West Indies as far south as the offshore islands of Venezuela. It is a partial migrant, with northern birds wintering from the Greater Antilles to northern South America.
Black-winged Lory The Black-winged Lory, Eos cyanogenia also known as Biak Red Lory is a medium-sized, up to 30cm long, long-tailed lory. It has a bright red plumage, black shoulder, red iris, an orange red bill and violet ear-patch behind eye.

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