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A Fistful of British Bird Bloggers

10,000 Birds

If you’re a British birder, or a birder looking in to British birding, you could be forgiven sometimes for feeling it bears all the hallmarks of a good soap opera depending on where you surf. They provide little in the way of inspiration to the average birder and offer little real insight into birding in Britain in the 21st century.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

The domestic dog was once and still often is Canis familiaris as opposed to the wolf, Canis lupus , but the former which is really a subspecies of the latter is now Canis lupus familiaris. The one case that could have been an actual Turkey was a bird spotted in Honduras, where they may or may not have been, by our friend Christopher Columbus.

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