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Bring back the Blue Tit

June 27, 2019 by Duncan 1 Comment

I’m a long-time champion of the IOC World Bird List as a standard for bird names. I pushed for Wikipedia to adopt them, and...

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White, yellow or golden?

by Kai Pflug No Comments

Collared Scops Owl – A Cat Head Eagle For a German living in China, bird names have some additional complexities. Most of the...

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Boobies, Really?

June 26, 2019 by Tom Brown 3 Comments

It is my sincere intent to have a short discussion about small group of birds, the Boobies, without any form of sophomoric humor. Those...

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

June 25, 2019 by Mike 5 Comments

For many North American birders, wood warblers represent everything exciting, compelling, and immediate about birding. The desire to better understand these avian jewels impelled...

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I’m not seeing spots: Towhee issues

by Paul Lewis 2 Comments

When you bird in Latin America, you quickly realize how America-centric English-language bird names are. Consider, for example, the Summer Tanager. This is an...

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Red-bellied Woodpecker

June 24, 2019 by a Guest 2 Comments

Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. He’s been working as...

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Cory’s Shearwater is Misspelled

by Corey 4 Comments

Cory’s Shearwater is missing a letter. One little “e” is absent from the name and it has been driving me crazy ever since I...

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2019)

by Mike 4 Comments

If you’re not finding mid-June birding all that exciting, you’re definitely not alone. Worry not, though, because you’ll find plenty of avian-themed excitement in...

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