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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

In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books.