A FIELD GUIDE TO THE WORDS BEHIND THE WINGS
Meet the bird.
Learn its name.
From familiar backyard visitors to extraordinary travelers. Make scientific names a little less foreign, one bird at a time.
Gathering the flock…
THE BIRD LIBRARY
A whole world of names.
A LITTLE LATIN. A LITTLE GREEK. A LOT OF BIRDS.
Two words. One species.
The first word names the genus, a group of related species. The second is the specific epithet. Together they form a scientific name. Many are Latinized Greek, place names, or people’s names.
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