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Bring back the Blue Tit

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I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. They give short shrift to New Zealand’s birds, lumping them with odd names no one here uses because the names are shared elsewhere and God knows America isn’t going to take a hit for us. But the Blue Tit was different.

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It feels like spring….

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…so here’s a post about some birds at a spring. The spring the birds I’ll show you today is far from the seat of New Zealand’s government where I now work. Striolated Bunting ( Emberiza srtriolata ) This member of the bunting family (that’s bunting, not sparrow. I’m sorry. Long may it last.