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AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Common names of species are important for communicating with the general public. In principle, these names should provide an accessible way to engage with and identify species.
Erin S Morrison, Guinevere P Pandolfi, Stepfanie M Aguillon, Jarome R Ali, Olivia Archard, Daniel T Baldassarre, Illeana Baquero, Kevin F P Bennett, Kevin M Bonney, Riley Bryant, Rosanne M Catanach, Therese A Catanach, Ida Chavoshan, Sarah N Davis, Brooke D Goodman, Eric R Gulson-Castillo, Matthew Hack, Jocelyn Hudon, Gavin M Leighton, Kira M Long, Ziqi Ma, Dakota E McCoy, J F McLaughlin, Gaia Rueda Moreno, Talia M Mota, Lara Noguchi, Ugo Nwigwe, Teresa Pegan, Kaiya L Provost, Shauna A Rasband, Jessie Frances Salter, Lauren C Silvernail, Jared A Simard, Heather R Skeen, Juliana Soto-Patiño, Young Ha Suh, Qingyue Wang, Matthew E Warshauer, Sissy Yan, Betsy Zalinski, Ziqi Zhao, Allison J Shultz   +41 more
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A taxonomically harmonized global dataset of wild bird hosts for avian influenza virus surveillance [PDF]

Scientific Data
Wild birds are key natural reservoirs and play a central role in the global spread of avian influenza viruses (AIVs). However, the absence of a standardized global list of wild bird hosts has limited comprehensive AIV risk monitoring and assessment ...
Fanshu Du, Qiang Zhang, Yachang Cheng, Yang Liu, Weipan Lei, Lu Wang, Honglei Sun, Yipeng Sun, Jinhua Liu, Zhichao Li, Juan Pu   +10 more
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What’s in a Bird’s Name? Bird Records and Aguaruna Names in Amazonian Indigenous Territories of Peru

Birds
Western Amazonia hosts the highest bird diversity in the world, yet in many regional indigenous territories, biodiversity remains poorly known to science.
Robert J Cooper
exaly   +3 more sources

A quantitative assessment of dialectal variation in a linguistic transition zone: spatial insights from vernacular bird names in southeastern Spain [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background Understanding the factors underlying dialectal variation across culturally and environmentally heterogeneous territories remains a major challenge in geolinguistic and ethnobiological research.
Mariano Paracuellos
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Indian Bird Names

Auk, 1885
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
W W Cooke
exaly   +3 more sources

Longevity of Bird Names

Names, 1953
w. L. McAtee
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The Use of Scientific Bird Names

Emu, 1904
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
exaly   +3 more sources

Popular Bird Names

Auk, 1920
Harrison F Lewis, Lewis Harrison F
exaly   +3 more sources

The Special Birds in Ali Shir Nawāyī’s Turkic Divans

Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
In XV. century, Ali Shir Nawāyī who was the touchstone poet of Chagatai literature applied to delicacy philosophy of sufism for discovering the existence and meaning in inner journey of person in his poems in Turkic divans.
MİSLİNA DERDİYOK
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Would a bird by any other name sing as sweet?

Lexique, 2019
Ample material for a lexicological and terminological study is provided by over ten thousand species of birds, many with multiple local names. Some of them follow the scientific name, while more creative ones put forward different characteristics ...
Amélie Depierre
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