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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

I have a fascinating little reference book called Whose Bird? Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds. We can’t change history, while many of these chaps (there’s not many women) were outstanding field ornithologists, though it has to be admitted that almost all of them shot the birds that took their names.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?