• The Cape Verde swift or Alexander's swift (Apus alexandri) is a small bird of the swift family found only in the Cape Verde Islands. It has been recorded...
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    [ˈfoɡu]; Portuguese for "fire") is an island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde in the central Atlantic Ocean. Its population is 35,837 (2015),: 36  with...
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    The Cape Verde Islands dry forests is a tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests ecoregion in the Cape Verde Islands, which constitute the country...
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    Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean...
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    Cape Verde (formally, the Republic of Cabo Verde) is a group of arid Atlantic islands which are home to distinct communities of plants, birds, and reptiles...
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  • Genus Apus Cape Verde swift (Apus alexandri) Common swift (Apus apus) Plain swift (Apus unicolor) Nyanza swift (Apus niansae) Pallid swift (Apus pallidus)...
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    Cape Verde is known internationally for morna, a form of folk music usually sung in the Cape Verdean Creole, accompanied by clarinet, violin, guitar and...
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  • shearwater Cape Verde storm petrel Cape Verde swift Cape Verde warbler Cape vulture Cape wagtail Cape weaver Cape white-eye Capped conebill Capped heron...
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    The wildlife of Cape Verde is found across its archipelago of ten islands and three islets, albeit in smaller numbers of species than mainland Africa....
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    20 species: Cape Verde swift, Apus alexandri Common swift, Apus apus Plain swift, Apus unicolor Nyanza swift, Apus niansae Pallid swift, Apus pallidus...
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    Cape Verde swift (Apus alexandri) Common swift (Apus apus) Subspecies: A. a. apus, & A. a. pekinensis Plain swift (Apus unicolor) Nyanza swift (Apus...
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  • This is a list of the bird species recorded in Cape Verde. The avifauna of Cape Verde include a total of 289 species, of which 5 are endemic, and 5 have...
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    a breeding resident of arid, desert and semi-desert regions from the Cape Verde Islands across much of northern Africa, through the Arabian Peninsula...
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    blue-wattled bulbul, Cape Verde swift, Solomons frogmouth, Colima pygmy-owl, fearful owl, green-breasted pitta and waterfall swift, Rothschild's lobe-billed...
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  • snowcock Cape Verde swift Plain swift (be) Laurel pigeon Bolle's pigeon Trocaz pigeon Spanish imperial eagle Cyprus scops owl Raso lark Cape Verde swamp...
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    Fogo Natural Park (category National parks of Cape Verde)
    Bird Area. Key bird species are Fea's petrel, Boyd's shearwater and Cape Verde swift. The ocean around the island of Fogo is another Important Bird Area...
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    neglectus Schlegel, 1873 – northern Cape Verde Islands F. t. alexandri Bourne, 1955 – southwestern Cape Verde Islands. F. t. rupicolaeformis (Brehm...
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  • Andean swift White-tipped swift White-throated swift Little swift Cape Verde swift Common swift Malagasy black swift African black swift Bates's swift Forbes-Watson's...
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    Magnificent frigatebird (category Birds of Cape Verde)
    are also populations on the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific and the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic. It is one of the fastest birds in the world,...
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    Hurricane Florence (category 2018 in Cape Verde)
    organized, and strengthened into a tropical depression on the next day near Cape Verde. Progressing along a steady west-northwest trajectory, the system gradually...
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    Cape Verde. Upon the nation's independence, it declared Esta É a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada as its national anthem. Until 1996, this was shared with Cape...
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    Twenty-nine species of Echium are endemic to the Canary, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos. The continental species are herbaceous, whereas many of...
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    Serra do Pico de Antónia (category Protected areas of Cape Verde)
    of peregrine falcons, red kites, long-legged buzzards, Alexander's swifts, Cape Verde warblers and Iago sparrows. The endemic lizards Mabuya stangeri spinalis...
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  • Guinea-Bissau, as it was of Cape Verde until 1996. In contrast to other Portuguese colonies like Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde, the fado style hardly...
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    Atlantic coast of Africa (the Insulae Gorgades, perhaps the Canaries or the Cape Verde islands), as well as the fabled tribe of native inhabitants, the women...
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  • Renato Veiga (category Portuguese sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent)
    victory against Poland in the UEFA Nations League. Veiga is the son of the Cape Verde former international footballer Nélson Veiga. A left-footed versatile...
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    Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC), an armed independence movement backed...
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    The Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic was created on October 26, 1989 by Decree No. 417-89, Environment and Resources General Law...
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    promoting genocide awareness and recognition. See: Music of Cape Verde There are more Cape Verdeans outside of their homeland than there are in the island...
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  • Jonathan Swift Xanth in Xanth series by Piers Anthony The Valyrian Peninsula in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin Cape (geography)...
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