What’s in a Name: Brewer’s Blackbird
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2016
It is a bird, and it is indeed black, so that part of the tag is accurate enough. The blackbird wasn’t Audubon’s only venture into naming things for the guy; there was also a Brewer’s Duck, but that proved to be a hybrid resulting from the notoriously incontinent habits of Mallards , and it fell by the wayside.
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