Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

lorums

English translation:

lores

Added to glossary by Sheila Hardie
May 29, 2006 15:32
17 yrs ago
Spanish term

lorums

Spanish to English Other Zoology
Familia Rynchopidae
El “rayador negro” Rynchops niger es una ave de 50 a 60 cm de largo. Presenta la corona, nuca, cuello posterior, dorso y supracaudales centrales de color negro ahumado. La frente, ***lorums***, mejillas, garganta, pecho, abdómen, subcaudales y supracaudales laterales de color blanco. Las alas negras, largas y puntiagudas, con bordes de las alas primarias y secundarias blancos. Cola blanca en su mayor parte y pico de color rojo en su mitad basal y negro el resto; mandíbula inferior notoriamente más larga que la superior y aplanada verticalmente hacia su extremo. Patas rojas, cortas y pequeñas.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 lores

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lores

I presume they are talking about the lores.

HTH


Sheila

The Birds of North America Online: Black Skimmer
Rynchops niger Order CHARADRIIFORMES - Family LARIDAE, BNA No. 108 ... Lores and suborbital region uniform pale buff, the former however with a dusky space ...
bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/account/Black_Skimmer/APPEARANCE.html - Pàgines semblants


# the area of the face between the eye and the upper bill of a bird, or the nostril of a snake, or a corresponding area on other animal organisms
www.kentuckyawake.org/templates/glossary/

# The space between eye and bill. Sometimes highly colored.
echotourism.com/birding/glossary.htm



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Note added at 7 minutos (2006-05-29 15:39:29 GMT)
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Peer comment(s):

agree Andrés Martínez : Yes, lore or lorum (sing.). Lores or lori (plural).
5 mins
thanks, Urico:-)
agree Rachel Fell
3 hrs
thanks, Rachel:-)
agree bezowski : http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Lore
18 hrs
thanks, bezowski - good link! :-)
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