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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Thanks to everyone who continues to have me in their minds after all this time! The book is still in development limbo. I have to reconceptualise it because every book shop is filled with dumbed-down books that have basically been cobbled together by general-interest authors with access to the...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Thanks for your continued efforts on my part! I am still labouring away on this, in between other assignments. The online research and fact-checking is time consuming (as I know you know already) and often results in having to re-write - or jettison altogether - great chunks of text and abandon...
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    Wow that's fantastic! Thanks SO much and I will definitely add this info to the chapter I am including dealing with 'local experts' - currently occupied by Klaas of cuckoo fame and Kalinde Musiko. Because I want to bring in a number of other crosscutting elements - conservation, gender, the...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Hi Justin Yes, it remains a common enough name here in Namibia also, although usually as a shortened version of Nicklaas I think. Also common enough, still, is the practice whereby people with African names allocate themselves a Western name, too, when their actual names prove difficult for...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    But in any event, I would be right in thinking that the information from 2009 given on the Bird Stamp Society website: "Abdim was, it seems, of great assistance to the German naturalist and explorer Wilhelm Rueppell" has subsequently been found to be incorrect? This was, in fact, the...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Klaas's Cuckoo would certainly be one bird I could include in my book and thank you for suggesting this. Can anyone direct me to an accurate translation online for the relevant text in the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, Volym 5?. My French is OK but I would prefer not to make any...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Wow Thank you all for the inputs thus far. Firstly, let me say that the info on the Stanley Crane is EXACTLY the sort of stuff I am looking for, and I will use it for sure. I am grateful for that feedback, which I would simply never have been able to discover here for myself. As a general reply...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    All this is time consuming. Indeed it is! Especially as I am not living in a place where I have access to a comprehensive library of any description (apart from my own small one) and have access only to patchy Internet. Which is kind of why I ended up here.... You are the people who can join...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Hi everyone who has been so helpful so far. To avoid posters wasting time through a misinterpretation of my original request (my fault), please allow me to make clearer what I need. I am a birder and have the relevant field guides and can do some research online to find out more regarding the...
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    Assistance with basic bird etymology

    Hi all I am in the process of writing a school book for learners here in Namibia. The current cohort of scientists trained many decades ago that has given such great service to Namibian conservation is not getting any younger but there are not that many youngsters anxious to follow in their...
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