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Ethnoornithology: Identification of bird names mentioned in Kakawin Rāmāyana, a 9th-century Javanese poem (Java, Indonesia)

Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 2019
. Mulyanto D, Iskandar J, Gunawan R, Partasasmita R. 2019. Ethnoornithology: Identification of bird names mentioned in Kakawin Rāmāyana, a 9th-century Javanese poem (Java, Indonesia). Biodiversitas 20: 3213-3222.
Dede Mulyanto, J. Iskandar, Rimbo Gunawan, R. Partasasmita   +3 more
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The birds of Kurdistan Province, western Iran

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
A checklist of the birds of Kurdistan Province, western Iran, is presented based on records of avian species whose presence was confirmed in the area as a result of field surveys conducted from 2010 to 2018, literature review, and personal communications
Fatah Zarei, Seyed Naseh Hosseini, Ridha Hassan Hussein, Jalal Pezeshk, Mariwan Rahim, Loghman Maleki   +5 more
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Bird names as critical communication infrastructure in the contexts of history, language, and culture.

Zootaxa
Standardized taxonomies and lists of birds were created to improve communication. They are linguistic infrastructure-biodiversity indices and dictionaries-that have been painstakingly built and maintained and that have enhanced regional and global ...
Kevin Winker
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A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe II.

Névtani Értesítő, 2016
The geography of historical personal names as a research area of geolinguistics. Part 2: Name geographic methods in dialectology     The paper demonstrates how the results of research into Hungarian family name geography could be applied in ...
János N. Fodor
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Zoogeographic peculiarities of distribution of birds. Part 2. Paleogea and Arctogea

Біологічні студії, 2013
Natural separation of the Earth’s surface on lands and zoogeographic regions causes presence of demonstrative species that occur only in certain geographical latitudes.
H. Fesenko, I. Shydlovskyy
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The end of the beginning: Establishing isiZulu names for all bird species recorded in South Africa

South African Journal of Science
Terminology development is needed for effective science communication, planning, teaching, and learning in indigenous African languages. This need includes species-specific names in indigenous languages for wild birds, which are key indicators of ...
Eckhart Buchmann, Junior Gabela, Adrian Koopman, Sakhamuzi Mhlongo, Themba Mthembu, Roger Porter, Nandi Thobela, Noleen S. Turner   +7 more
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Zwei Vorschläge zur Etymologie des ägyptischen Wortes „gɜ“ „Kranich“

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2015
The present article deals with the etymology of the Old Egyptian bird-name “gɜ” “crane”. Two suggestions will be made. The first posits a relationship with the verb “gɜgɜ” “cackle”, a side form of “ngg” “cackle”.
Stefan Bojowald
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What's in a name? The use of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand business names

People and Nature
The use of animal symbolism or names is a common practice in advertising and branding. Businesses use animals to project attributes of their brand and thus contribute to public familiarity with the species.
Jan‐Hendrik Dudenhöffer, Laureline Rossignaud, Jonathan Bray, Thomas N. Dawes, Cassandra V. Edmunds, Elizabeth Elliot Noe, Robert D. Gibson II, William Godsoe, Stephen Rowe, Jesse M. Rubenstein, Philip E. Hulme   +10 more
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Bird conservation status and cultural values in Indigenous Mexican communities: towards a bioculturally informed conservation policy

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background We summarize comparative ethnoornithological data for ten Mexican Indigenous communities, an initial step towards a comprehensive archive of the avian diversity conserved within Mexico’s Indigenous territories. We do so by counting highlighted
Graciela Alcántara-Salinas, Eugene S. Hunn, María Elena Ibáñez-Bravo, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya, Noé Flores-Hernández, Juan Antonio Pérez-Sato, Natalia Real-Luna, Rafael Arturo Muñoz-Márquez Trujillo, Diana Lope-Alzina, Jaime Ernesto Rivera-Hernández   +9 more
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Siberian Yupik Names for Birds: What Can Bird Names Tell Us about Language and Knowledge Transitions?

, 2017
This article analyzes the list of Siberian Yupik names for birds from Chukotka, Russia, from the unpublished “Dictionary of Traditional Subsistence Terminology of the Asiatic Yupik Eskimo” (n.d., [2010]), produced by the late Russian biologist Lyudmila ...
I. Krupnik
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