Branding Breeding Family Jamaica 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. In Jamaica , this winter resident is sometimes called Butterfly Bird or Fire Lantern. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed.
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