A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2018
For example, fancy words will be used where normal words might seem appropriate: birds of the same species are “conspecifics” (and they will never, ever “flock together”). By September 2014, there were an estimated 164 Millerbirds on Laysan. It is all business. It takes some time for non-scientists to wade through the language.
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