Last month, I wrote about the common names of birds, and the planned changes to some of those names. In the past, I’ve written about the folk names of birds. But there are also the scientific names of ...
As a self-professed nature nerd, I’ve become accustomed to common names for plants being misleading. Rose of Sharon, for instance, is not a rose but a hibiscus. It follows that names for animals may ...
A magnolia warbler (left) and an American redstart (right). During their migrations, these species may travel together. Credit: Shutterstock This season, billions of birds will take to the skies as ...
How did North American birds get their English names? The question is simple, the answer complex. Some birds are named after 19th-century naturalists (Wilson’s warbler); a few names are imitative of a ...
Cooper’s hawk (upper left), Harris’ sparrow (upper right), LeConte’s sparrow (lower left) and Wilson’s warbler (lower right) are all examples of birds that will be renamed by the American ...
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