Tag: moorhens

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Common Moorhens at Hannover Zoo

July 24, 2016 by Jochen No Comments

The Common Moorhen still is in Germany what its name implies: common. Well, it is rather common and can even be scarce regionally, but...

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Won’t Someone Think Of The Children?

September 30, 2015 by Duncan 2 Comments

One of my favourite Monty Python sketches involves a rather enthusiastic documentary into the sordid sex lives of the mollusks. Without ever meaning to...

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What an Ugly Baby.

July 21, 2012 by Redgannet 4 Comments

There must be a hormone that makes newborn babies appear beautiful to their parents, ‘cos there’s no denying it; newborn babies are ugly! Give...

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Moorhen Mania: The splitting and renaming of the Common Moorhen

January 11, 2011 by David 30 Comments

One of the items currently before the American Ornithologists’ Union’s North American Checklist Committee (NACC) is a proposal to split Old World and New...

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