Birds, Breeding, Hunters and Neglecting

Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Having come back to the blog in whatever form and persistency, the overarching subject of language in birding seemed to be a suitable and deserving theme since bird names were part of my original beat. How have birds infiltrated our everyday language, even of non-birders? No birds required.

Germany

Germany Birds Hunters Owls

Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. There were subsequent expeditions to the region in search of Guans, but none yielded evidence of the bird.

Collecting

Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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