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AUSTRALIAN Bird NAMES

2019
This Second Edition of Australian Bird Names is a completely updated checklist of Australian birds and the meanings behind their common and scientific names, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading! For each species, the authors examine the many-and-varied common names and full scientific name, with derivation ...
Ian Fraser, Jeannie Gray
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Australian Bird Names

2013
Australian Bird Names is aimed at anyone with an interest in birds, words, or the history of Australian biology and bird-watching. It discusses common and scientific names of every Australian bird, to tease out the meanings, which may be useful, useless or downright misleading!
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser
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Australian Bird Names (Book Review)

2020
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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A Little Bird Named Enza

Journal AWWA, 2006
In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr discusses pandemics, beginning with the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. He describes how the virus originated in wild birds and eventually mutated to become infectious to humans. He links the Spanish Flu to the current new strain of bird flu through epidemiological and laboratory evidence that indicates ...
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Short Notes – Temiar Bird Names

2018
Peninsular Malaysia is home to at least 25 groups of indigenous people, collectively known as the Orang Asli. Most of the Orang Asli still live in forested landscapes and have a close connection with nature. Thus, they often have complete sets of names for the plants and animals that they encounter.
Teckwyn Lim   +8 more
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Let's Make Bird Names Helpful

BioScience, 1968
some changes a few years ago, they changed the name of the blue-headed vireo to the solitary vireo and, the American egret to the common egret. This kind of change is not inspired. All changes should be useful and significant. A clear goal is needed. Some names of bird species help in identification the chestnut-sided warbler; other names do not the ...
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Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

Nature, 2020
Shaohong Feng   +2 more
exaly  

Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
Stanislas Rigal   +2 more
exaly  

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