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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2023
And then I saw the species names attached to the aforementioned gentlemen’s avian namesakes and gave up… So, my attempt at political correctness has been thwarted by the 18th century rules of taxonomy. That is arguably the scariest sentence you will ever read in a birding blog. eBird shows the possibility of 152 species.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.
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