The most popular searches of Greeks for 2024 were presented by Googlea few days before the end of the year.
In Google’s annual “Year in Search” lists, Greeks had original questions and wanted to know by “asking” the top search engine what it is skull, the tofu and the lawyer.
At the same time, Greek users searched for why “Tuesday the 13th is considered Greek”, but also why “we lie on April Fool’s Day”.
What is the head?
According to the Hellenic Ornithological Society, the cephalopod is a unusual looking duck. The male has a thick white head with a black body and a bluish “swollen bill”, while its body is light brown and its pointed hard tail is often raised, giving it a distinctive silhouette.
Males and females are the same small size, not exceeding 43-48 cm, but females are generally darker on the head, with pale cheeks crossed by a dark line, while their bodies are tawny.
They walk with difficulty on land and are rarely seen flying making only the movements necessary for migration. But they are very fast in their movement in the water, using their peculiar tail for propulsion.
Clams breed in small shallow freshwater or brackish marshes, but these are associated with larger wetland ecosystems.
In winter they form large herds, but in spring they disperse in small groups to find suitable areas for breeding.
The puffin is one of the rarest bird species in the world, with a global population of no more than 15,000 individuals. Its current distribution is highly fragmented, presenting mainly two subpopulations, one in the western and one in the eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caspian. The western subpopulation is epidemic and consists of about 1000 individuals that breed mainly in Spain but also in Algeria and Tunisia. The eastern population is larger and migratory.
The gannets breed mainly in Turkey, which has the world’s largest population of 200-300 pairs, while smaller numbers breed in Russia, Iran and occasionally in Romania.
At the beginning of the century, the population of the headland was estimated at over 100,000, while today it has decreased by 4/5.
Boletus nested in Italy, Corsica, Morocco, Hungary, Albania and there are also reports of Greece.
Since the 1980s the cephalopod appears almost every year in the wetlands of Macedonia and Thrace in small numbers. But since 1990 there has been a sharp increase in the number of birds visiting our country, reaching in 1997 the record number of 2,300 birds at Lake Vistonida. Their preference for this lake is evident as all the birds that have been observed there in recent years, with the exception of few and isolated individuals in the lakes of Ismarida and Kerkini.
We still don’t know what attracts the cephalopods to Lake Vistonida, and even to specific locations such as the southeastern part where the Travos River flows out. We also don’t know if these birds come from Turkey or Russia.
What is tofu?
Tofu is a product created from soy milk and prepared like cheese. It is popular in many countries of the Far East (Japan, China, etc.) and among people who follow vegetarianism or strict vegetarianism (veganism).
It comes in different varieties, categorized according to hardness and can be enjoyed in many ways, e.g. grilled, grilled, fried and steamed.
What is an avocado?
The avocet is a waterfowl of the Anoramphidae family, which is also found in Greece. The scientific name of the species is “Recurvirostra avosetta” and does not include subspecies. The Latin term Recurvirostra for the genus, comes from the synthetic recurvare “bend, bend” + rostrum “beak” and refers to the characteristic curved beak of the bird. The scientific name avosetta “avocet” has a Venetian root and appeared for the first time in Aldrovandi’s Ornithology (1603). It is possible that the name is related to the Italian word avvocato (=lawyer), to recall the black and white “suit” of the bird, as lawyers of the time were dressed, but this has not been proven.
The English word pied in the popular name of the species (Pied avocet), has a post-medieval origin (1350-1400) and comes from the word pie, which means “two-colored” and, in fact, “black and white”, completely associated with the plumage of the bird. After all, the same composition exists in other English words with a similar meaning, such as e.g. magpie (=magpie) or pied horse (=spotted horse). The wordy Greek name of the bird anoramphos, refers to the characteristic beak of the species, which “sees” upwards.
The species was described by Linnaeus as Recurvirostra Avosetta (Italy, 1758), in his work Systema Naturae. The species has a wide range of distribution in the Old World (ecozones: Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan), with the western limits, on the one hand, in Eurasia, in the Iberian region, and on the other in Africa, in all the coastal areas of the Atlantic, from Morocco to South Africa. The eastern borders of the territory extend to Mongolia and the China Sea. To the north, the distribution areas start from southern Scandinavia and southern Siberia.
In Europe, the avocet is a breeding bird on the coasts of the United Kingdom, southern Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Germany, France and Portugal.
In Spain it nests both on the coast and inland. It is also endemic in Sardinia, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Hungary. In Austria they are observed at Lake Neusiedl, where more than 500 adult birds were counted in 2004, but their breeding success was alarmingly low. Also, the Volga Delta is one of the major European avocado breeding areas.
In detail, the relevant lists published by Google:
What is it
- What is the head
- What is tofu?
- What is an avocet?
- What is HIV
- What is HPV?
- What is a waking coma?
- What is PTSD?
- What is xylene?
- What is streptococcus?
- What is syphilis?
Why
- Why is Tuesday and the 13th considered a Greek day?
- Why do we lie on April Fool’s Day?
- Why was the Netherlands disqualified?
- Why was Las Vegas founded?
- Why do we fly kites on Maundy Monday?
- Why is Iran attacking Israel?
- Why do tomatoes burst?
- Why do we celebrate Chiknopemptis?
- Why am I always sleepy?
- Why do we dye eggs red?
When
- When does Chiknopempti 2024 fall
- When does the time change 2024
- When is the Ascension
- When do schools open 2024
- When are the results of the Panhellenic 2024 coming out?
- When is Shrove Monday?
- When does Triodium 2024 open?
- When is Black Friday 2024
- When does the digital job card start?
- When are the European elections?