Heliolisk is a large bipedal reptilian PokÃ©mon that resembles a frilled neck lizard. Its slender body is mainly bright yellow, with black patches on the top of its head, its frilled neck, its claws, its feet, and the tip of its tail. The tips of its neck frills are triangular and orange in color, and it has orange stripes around its legs. When emitting electricity, it extends the frills on its neck, which flare up, resembling a sun-like shape.
Still: how many damn birds are there in the United States? John Trapp rounds up the literature here and figures the best guess is around 10 billion birds in spring and 20 billion in the fall. Meanwhile, the aptly named book, How Many Birds Are There? estimates 200-400 billion birds for the entire world, which is pretty consistent with 10-20 billion in the U.S.
This figure, however, includes not only the fossil species, but also treats all subspecies as full species. It is, therefore, obvious that the actual number of species of birds must be considerably below Sharpe's figure, even though about 400 additional good species have been described since 1909. In 1935 I [[p. 65]] made a careful estimate and arrived at the figure 8,500 (Mayr, 1935).