What’s in a Name?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
There are not, as far as I know, any plans to re-name the Montagu’s Harrier, a bird that’s now a real rarity in the UK that only occasionally breeds here. Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today. However, most of us still call it a Bewick’s. There are relatively few European birds named after women.
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