Bleak
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BLEAK, or Blick (Alburnus lucidus), a small fish of the Cyprinid family, allied to the bream and the minnow, but with a more elongate body, resembling a sardine.
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Bleak
The bleak is a small fish of the Cyprinid family, allied to the bream and the minnow, but with a more elongate body, resembling a sardine. The maximum length is approximately 25 cm. It is found in European streams.
Bleak outlook for this river dweller
Common Name: Indus River dolphin, bhulan, blind river dolphin, Indus dolphin, side swimming dolphin; Plataniste de l'Indus (Fr); Delfín del Indo (Sp)
Scientific Name: Platanista minor ...
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Resplendent Quetzal
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On 23 December 1968, in bleak weather, Norman Bell found a very tired, hungry and utterly dejected Boreal Owl sitting on the ground near the West Light on Sable Island. Weak from exhaustion, the bird offered no resistance when he picked it up.
Mountains high and bleak we knew were near, but as yet the landscape, was concealed from our view. At length the mist disperses, reft by the northern blasts, the sun appears riding among the fleeting vapours, and now the curtain rises, when lo! ...
Mountain Folk: The vicuña lives in herds on the bleak and elevated parts of the mountain range bordering the region of perpetual snow, amidst rocks and precipices, occurring in various suitable localities throughout Peru, ...
In the afternoon we made a zodiac stop on Bleaker Island. Here we made a long walk 2.5 miles across a pasture to see a colony of Rock Hopper Penguins.
It is an attractive bird to watch, either on the bleak mudflats on a grey winter's day or along the warm stretches of sand and shingle in summer.
The region is bleak and cold in winter and intensely hot in summer, but the hardy Camargue horse may have descended from prehistoric horses that lived farther north.
They can tolerate cold and snow, and thrive in bleak, rugged environments where other breeds would perish. In summer, their long lashes and forelocks shield their eyes from flying insects.
The Reischek's Parakeet lives only on Antipodes Island - one of New Zealand's southern remote, bleak and inhospitable subantarctic islands (~21 km2 in size).
The two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros shares the bleak distinction of world's most endangered rhino with its regional cousin, the Javan rhino.
This is one of the lessons of this power animal: during times when our hearts and spirits feel bleak and cold we can flourish if we have sufficient inner strength, courage and faith.
Herman Melville, who visited the Galapagos in 1837, just after Darwin, took a bleak view of the archipelago's fauna: ...
This entire region is exposed to an unforgiving mountainous climate, snow and bleak winds in winter, mist and wind in summer.
Treecreeper, Short-toed Certhia brachydactyla Found: Europe, Asia
Photographed by: 1) JimBleak 2) Aleph ...
For such wide-ranging species (a wolverine's home range can be larger a grizzly bears, even though bears are ten times bigger), this can paint a bleak picture for their long-term survival.
threat to jaguar survival In the 1960's and 1970's, 18,000 jaguars were killed for their coats. Habitat and prey loss which forces the cats to prey on domestic stock and thus puts them in danger from farmers, means the long term survival looks bleak ...
Various members of the family are called shiners, chubs, daces, roaches, breams, and bleaks.
South-west European nase (Parachondrostoma toxostoma)
Tropidophoxinellus (Tropidophoxinellus spartiaticus)
Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
Marico barb (Barbus motebensis)
Italian bleak (Alburnus albidus) ...
and young calves - were found dead in western Kazakhstan, a significant proportion of the remaining population. Harsh winters, continued poaching and the destruction of their key habitats and traditional migration routes means the future looks bleak ...
 See also: Diver, Sable, Roach, Snake, Sheep
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