10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
They’re all named for livestock. The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2023
His goal, he says in the Preface, is to fulfill a childhood desire to learn more about a stern figure in a family photograph, a mysterious man with impressive but largely undocumented achievements. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book. But this is not a hagiography.
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