Armando Varricchio (born June 13, 1961, Venice, Italy) is the Italian ambassador to the United States of America since March 2nd 2016. He previously served as Ambassador to Serbia (2009-12). After returning to Italy in 2012 after serving in Serbia, Varricchio was deputy secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was awarded the Knight of the Grand Cross, Italy's highest award. After graduating from the University of Padua in 1985 with a degree in International Relations, he entered the Foreign Service in 1986. Since 2015 he is a member of the Italy-USA Foundation.

This ''''list of birds of Ohio'''' includes species documented in the U.S. state of Ohio and accepted by Ohio Bird Records Committee (OBRC). As of March 2021, there were 443 species and a species pair on the official list. Of them, 193 have been documented as breeding in the state, and 138 are review species as defined below. Eight species found in Ohio have been introduced to North America. Two species on the list are extinct, two more might be, and two have been extirpated. Birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free, are not included. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. The following tags have been used to annotate some species:
* (B) Breeding - species having a confirmed nest in modern times
* (R) Review list - species which have rarely occurred in Ohio and whose sightings "must be acceptably documented before adding them to the official record" per the OBRC
* (I) Introduced - a species established solely as result of direct or indirect human intervention
* (E) Extinct - a recent species that no longer exists

Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, or overkill, is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder. The term was invented by Dutch biologist Hans Kruuk after studying spotted hyenas in Africa and red foxes in England. Some of the other animals which have been observed engaging in surplus killing include zooplankton, humans, damselfly naiads, predaceous mites, martens, weasels, honey badgers, jaguar,[leopard]]s, lions, spiders, brown bears, american black bears, polar bears, coyotes, lynxes, minks, raccoons and dogs. There are many documented examples of predators exhibiting surplus killing. For example, researchers in Canada's Northwest Territories once found the bodies of 34 neonatal caribou calves that had been killed by wolves and scattered — some half-eaten and some completely untouched — over a 3 square kilometres (1.2 sq mi) area. In Tasmania, in a single dog attack, 58 little penguins were killed. In mainland Australia, a single fox once killed around 74 penguins over several days, eating almost nothing. One leopard in Cape Province, South Africa killed 51 sheep and lambs in a single incident. Similarly, two caracal in Cape Province killed 22 sheep in one night, eating only part of the buttock of one carcass. Up to 19 spotted hyenas once killed 82 Thomson's gazelle and badly injured 27, eating just 16%. In late autumn, least weasels often surplus-kill vole and then dig them up and eat them on winter days when it is too cold to hunt. Surplus killing by wolves has mainly been observed when snow is unusually deep in late winter or early spring, and the wolves have frequently cached their prey for eating days or weeks later. On February 7, 1991, in Denali National Park, six wolves killed at least 17 caribou and left many untouched. By February 13, 30–95% of each carcass had been eaten or cached, and by April 16, several had been dug up and fed upon again. In March 2016, a Wyoming wolf pack of 9 wolves were found to have slaughtered 19 elk. John Lund, of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, claimed to have never documented surplus killings to that extreme. In Florida, laboratory experiments documented cases of surplus killing in larvae of the predatory midge Corethrella appendiculata against specific larval stages of different species of mosquitoes of the genus Toxorhynchites. In surplus killing, predators eat only the most-preferred animals and animal parts. Bears engaging in surplus killing of salmon are more likely to eat unspawned fish because of higher muscle quality, and high-energy parts such as brains and eggs. Surplus killing can deplete the overall food supply, waste predator energy and risk them being injured. Nonetheless, researchers say animals surplus-kill whenever they can, in order to procure food for offspring and others, to gain valuable killing experience, and to create the opportunity to eat the carcass later when they are hungry again.

A Statue of Billie Holiday stands at Billie Holiday Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland.

This ''''list of birds of Ohio'''' includes species documented in the U.S. state of Ohio and accepted by Ohio Bird Records Committee (OBRC). As of March 2021, there were 443 species and a species pair on the official list. Of them, 193 have been documented as breeding in the state, and 138 are review species as defined below. Eight species found in Ohio have been introduced to North America. Two species on the list are extinct, two more might be, and two have been extirpated. Birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free, are not included.

Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, or overkill, is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder. The term was invented by Dutch biologist Hans Kruuk after studying spotted hyenas in Africa and red foxes in England. Some of the other animals which have been observed engaging in surplus killing include zooplankton, humans, damselfly naiads, predaceous mites, martens, weasels, honey badgers, jaguar,[leopard]]s, lions, spiders, brown bears, american black bears, polar bears, coyotes, lynxes, minks, raccoons and dogs.