Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Rail against the Keeling zone: The Cocos Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi). WWF maximum cards/ maxicards/ dorincards from Cocos/Keeling Islands. Also a list of memes for each of the 7 days.


"The Cocos Buff-banded RailGallirallus philippensis andrewsi, is an endangered subspecies of the Buff-banded Rail endemic to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian Offshore Territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.[2] The local Cocos Malay name of the bird is Ayam Hutan("Chicken of the Forest").[3]"
"Population size is estimated as 850-1000 birds, with a population density of 7-8 birds/ha.[4]"

So 7-8 birds/ha...Huh? So there are fewer birds, 850-1000, than the number of stories that this woman told: "Scheherazade (pronounced /ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːdᵊ/), sometimes Scheherazadea, Persian transliteration Shahrazad or Shahrzād (Persianشهرزاد ŠahrzādArabic Šahrazād), is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights."

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Here's a list of various memes for each of the 7 days: