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Eurasian collared dove
The Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a pale gray-buff dove with a black neck collar, native to Asia and Europe and common across much of North America.
Eurasian Customs Union
The Eurasian Customs Union was a customs union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia that operated from 2010 with a single customs territory and common external tariff.
Eurasian Development Bank
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is a multilateral development bank founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in 2006, headquartered in Almaty, with six members and a US$16.5 billion portfolio.
Eurasian eagle-owl
Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo), also Uhu or Grand-duc d'Europe, a large Strigidae owl across Eurasia and North Africa; IUCN Least Concern, 37,100–59,500 mature individuals in Europe, increasing, threatened mainly by powerline electrocution and persecution.
Eurasian Economic Union (Евразийский экономический союз)
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU; Евразийский экономический союз) is an economic union of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, founded by a treaty in force since 2015.
Eurasian goshawk
Eurasian goshawk (Astur gentilis, formerly Accipiter gentilis, Northern Goshawk): large Palearctic forest hawk, split from American Goshawk in 2023; ~291,000 European mature individuals, decreasing; extinct in Britain by 1900, re-established from falconers' releases.
Eurasian hoopoe
The Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) is a distinctive insect-eating bird with a fan-shaped crest and long curved bill; it breeds across Eurasia and winters mainly in Africa.
Eurasian International
Eurasian International is a casino in Mong La Township, Kengtung District, Shan State, Myanmar (OSM node 12918512744), located in NDAA-run Special Region 4 near the Chinese border; unrelated companies in Hong Kong, the UK, and Kazakhstan share the name.
Eurasian jay
Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), a colourful corvid of Europe and Asia; caches 4,500-11,000 acorns, shows episodic-like memory, disperses oaks up to 4 km; IUCN Least Concern, stable population of 24-46.2 million mature individuals.
Eurasian Land Bridge
The Eurasian Land Bridge, or Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor, is a rail freight route between China and Europe along about 12,000 km of railroad, chiefly the Trans-Siberian Railway through Russia and Belarus.
Eurasian lynx
Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), the largest lynx species, a solitary forest cat from Western Europe to the Pacific coast of Russia; IUCN Least Concern overall, with endangered reintroduced European subpopulations; preys mainly on roe deer and chamois.
Eurasian magpie
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), also called common magpie, is a black-and-white corvid of Europe and Asia, 45 cm long with a long tail, omnivorous, urban-adapted, IUCN Least Concern; famous but unreplicated 2008 mirror self-recognition claim.
Eurasian nomads
Eurasian nomads: mobile pastoralist peoples of the Eurasian Steppe (Scythians, Xiongnu, Huns, Turks, Mongols) who herded horses and sheep, built steppe empires c. 500 BC–1500 AD, and persist today in Mongolian and Central Asian herding.
Eurasian otter
Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), also European or common otter, a semi-aquatic mustelid from Ireland to Southeast Asia; Near Threatened, decreasing, 57,880–361,140 mature individuals, fish-major diet, 12 subspecies.
Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a major tectonic plate carrying most of the Eurasian landmass, bounded by the mid-Atlantic ridge and the ongoing India collision that raised the Himalaya.
Eurasian Resources Group
Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) is a diversified metals and mining group headquartered in Luxembourg with major operations in Kazakhstan and Africa, listed in London as ENRC from 2007 to 2013.
Eurasian sparrowhawk
Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also called sparrowhawk or European sparrowhawk, a small Old World bird-hunting raptor of Accipitridae; females much larger than males; Least Concern, 2-3.2 million mature individuals; recovered from organochlorine pesticide crash.
Eurasian Steppe
Eurasian Steppe, the world's largest temperate grassland belt, stretching from Central Europe across Kazakhstan and Mongolia to northern China; grassland, pastoralism, Silk Road of the Steppes, land degradation and drying trends.
Eurasian tree sparrow
Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus), moineau friquet, gorrión molinero: small chestnut-capped, white-cheeked Old World sparrow of Europe and Asia; cavity nester; introduced to the US from 12 birds in St. Louis, 1870.
Eurasian wolf
Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), the nominate gray wolf subspecies of Europe and Asia; about 23,000 in Europe, up to 25% dog ancestry in genomes, downlisted from strictly protected to protected under EU law in 2025.
Eurasian wren
Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes, often Nannus troglodytes), the Old World wren: 9–10 cm, ~9.9 g, extremely loud year-round song, 28–29 subspecies, communal winter roosts, king-of-the-birds folklore.
Eurasianism (евразийство)
Eurasianism (евразийство) is a Russian ideological movement founded by émigrés in the 1920s, notably Trubetskoy and Savitsky, holding Russia to be a distinct Eurasian civilization; revived as Dugin's neo-Eurasianism and reflected in Putin's Eurasian Union.
Eurasier
The Eurasier, also known as the Eurasian dog, is a medium-sized spitz-type dog breed created in Germany in the 1960s by crossing the Chow Chow with the Wolfspitz.
euRathlon
euRathlon was a European Commission-funded outdoor robotics competition, held from 2013 to 2015, testing robot autonomy in mock disaster scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident.
Euratom
Euratom, formally the European Atomic Energy Community, is a legal entity established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 to coordinate peaceful nuclear energy use in Europe.
EURC
EURC (Euro Coin) is a euro-denominated stablecoin issued by Circle, pegged 1:1 to the euro, launched in June 2022 and issued under the EU MiCA regulation by Circle SAS in France since July 2024.
Eure
Eure (27) is a Normandy department in northwestern France, prefecture Évreux, bordering Île-de-France; about 602,700 inhabitants in 2023, 6,040 km², the most wooded Normandy department.
Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir, department no. 28 in Centre-Val de Loire, France, prefecture Chartres, 433,129 inhabitants (2023), 363 communes, 5,927 km²; Paris-border department with GDP per capita 31,600 € and the region's highest median living standard.
EUREC4A
EUREC4A, an international field campaign over the tropical Atlantic east of Barbados in 2020, used four aircraft and research vessels to study trade cumulus clouds and climate sensitivity.
Eureeka's Castle
Eureeka's Castle is an American Nick Jr. puppet series (1989–1995) set in a giant's wind-up castle music box, co-created and head-written by R.L. Stine, featuring Eureeka, Magellan, and Batly.