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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. They’re all named for livestock. The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

When they surface, the tips of the snout, biosonar “melon” and dorsal fins appear simultaneously, the tail rarely showing before diving. We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.

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