10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
It starts as follows: “Historical variations (1966–2016) in the exposure to inorganic elements in raptors of South West Spain have been little studied.” A bit like being adopted, I guess. It is like the old sheepshagger joke … Searching for papers on the Common Kestrel , one abstract immediately caught my attention.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2020
A European Robin ( Erithacus rubescens ) from British Birds and their Eggs by John Maclair Boraston (1909). The robin’s famous red breast really is more of a rusty orange, but the word “orange” wouldn’t enter into English from Old French as a color name until the 1510s (and it was probably even later that the Welsh adopted the cognate oren ).
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