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2023-12-03 23:23:19 +0000: Economic View of Birdwatching
There's a recent (Oct 2023) article in the journal Ornithological Applications entitled "Historical racial redlining and contemporary patterns of income inequality negatively affect birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles, California." It's rather complex but the basic idea is that well-to-do or even moderate-income neighborhoods have a greater diversity of birds than do low-income …
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2023-11-26 17:01:29 +0000: The Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise
Regularly I like to blog about some of the more interesting birds of the world. Today, one of the 45 species of Birds-of-Paradise. Birds-of-Paradise, family Paradisaedae, are only found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and a small part of Australia. In the early years of exploration, European Traders shipped Bird-of-Paradise skins from New Guinea to collectors …
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2023-11-19 16:41:11 +0000: The Naming Controversy
I earlier discussed the proposal by the American Ornithologist's Union (AOU) to change the common names of birds named after people. Let me add a little more here. Will this lead to a change in scientific names as well? The AOU changed McCown's Longspur to the Thick-billed Longspur because of McCown's support of slavery as …
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2023-11-12 17:02:21 +0000: The Snakebird
I like to alternate my posts between scientific and philosophical musings with looks at some interesting birds. Today the bird is the Anhinga. The word “anhinga” is derived from the native Brazilian Tupi-Guarani language word “ana’cİncİa,” which translates to “devil bird”, "snake bird" or “evil spirit of the woods.” The Tupi people (one of the …
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2023-11-05 15:20:55 +0000: Bird Names Changing?
From the Washington Post, November 1, 2023: "The American Ornithological Society (AOU) says it will alter the names of North American birds named after humans, starting with up to 80 of them." Their justifications are that the names are of people with negative reputations - endorsing or participating in slavery, for example - and that …
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2023-10-29 15:59:08 +0000: Common Cuckoo
“Cuckoo” has come to describe someone not fully in control of their mental state, but it has a number of other meanings that you can look up here. But today I’m going to give you the real scoop on the real cuckoo bird. The Common Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus. Cuckoo and cuculus both reflect the bird's …
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2023-10-22 16:42:20 +0000: Japanese “Nightingale”
The English name “nightingale” refers to the Japanese Bush Warbler, a common songbird in Japan. The singing of the bush warbler has encouraged the keeping of these birds as caged birds in homes. To encourage singing the cages of birds were covered with a wooden box with a small paper window that allowed only subdued light …
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2023-10-15 14:46:18 +0000: Japanese Gardens and Birds
Just returned from a three-week trip to Japan. Not a birding trip but I snuck in some birdwatching when I could. Mostly visiting cities and towns and villages, I had a look at several parks and gardens. Japanese gardens are attractive, neat, and clean, but perhaps overly so. One of the elements of Japanese garden …
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2023-09-18 15:51:23 +0000: A Little Hiatus
This just a quick note to subscribers of Onithology.com blog posts. I will be out of the country for a few weeks and won’t be able to publish my blog until early October. If you miss reading my blog, I have written about 400 of them so you can read the ones you missed or …
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2023-09-17 14:38:40 +0000: Migration Time, Again
Fall is migration time in the Northern Hemisphere when birds leave their summer homes to winter at locations to the south; in the spring the migration is reversed, the birds moving from their summer homes to breeding locations in the north. But have you ever thought about the birds living in the Southern Hemisphere? Where …
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