Genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the western hemisphere: courlan; limpkin.
A large brownish wading bird(Aramus guarauna)of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call.
The Ledo Road and the pipeline went through some mostly uninhabited areas of Burma with some of the most difficult terrain in the world, including tropical rain forest, torrential streams, terraces and canyons, jungle-covered mountains and swampy valleys.
blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions.
Vegetations types were divided into salty growth, swampy growth, meadow and aquatic vegetation, and so on.
a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
The plan is enough to urbanize southern Barcelona and transform the swampy areas of the Lovrigate Delta into a modern sports facility, pleasant environment and beautiful and prosperous Olympic village.
And then the earthquake struck, and this swampy rain forest was gone.
Alternatively, the dead could have been killed on the spot in "the swampy valley environment", the paper concludes.
With the use of wooden or stone tools at that time, it was undoubtedly much easier to develop the north than to develop the mountainous, swampy and bushy south.
from 280 million to 310 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land.
For the first time, biologists have documented the gorillas in the wild, using simple tools to perform rudimentary tasks such as poking a stick in a swampy pool of water to check its depth.
Gingerich believes the first cetaceans probably resembled anthracotheres, svelte hippo-like browsers that inhabited swampy lowlands in Eocene times.
Malaria is still rampant in some swampy regions.
Her eyes followed the winding road, blood-red now after the morning rain. In her thought she traced its course as it ran down the hill to the sluggish Flint River, through the tangled swampy bottoms and up the next hill to Twelve Oaks where Ashley lived.
Many surface waters, particularly those emanating from swampy areas, are often colored to the extent.
The abundant plant fossils in coal beds indicate that they originated in warm, freshwater-swampy forests, much as peat bogs form now.
But the delta was mostly swampy, and Pratt drained a lake, filled it with soil, and built a high-grade campsite in Karagogo, about a dozen hectares.
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