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birdnamesforbirds.wordpress.com
(August 9, 2020) The American Ornithological Society's (AOS) North American Classification Committee (NACC) announced Friday, August 7 night via an email to society members, that a formal change was made to a single bird species's English common name. Rhynchophanes mccownii, the scientific name for this species and previously called McCown's Longspur, will now be known... |
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memoriesofthepeople.blog
Nicolas Mirzoeff's essay, The Whiteness of Birds, brought my attention to this painting. There are layers here that probably tell us more about people than the about the ecology of the bird - about white history, white nature, white autonomy, even white ornithology - an invisible thread of slavery and ethnic cleansing. The painting, of... |
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underthebanyan.blog
John Kirk Townsend, who lived from 1809 to 1851, was a prolific American naturalist. In his short life, he collected specimens of several species of bird that were new to science. But he was also an odious racist who raided the graves of Native Americans. He removed skulls from their corpses and sent them to... |
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cambodianbeginnings.wordpress.com
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