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Name a Bird You've Seen 2 (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter Jacana
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Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
Lol! My guess is that most of the birds that haven't been played yet are likely to be single country endemics or nearly so 😆
foresttwitcher
Virtually unknown member
You are probably right.
That's my last from Madagascar & only 1 left now and not a single country endemic...
Jacana
Will Jones
By my calculations, about 53% of remaining birds are single country endemics!
8459 Tullberg's Woodpecker, another African near-endemic named after a person
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
8461 Black-legged Dacnis
OK, this one took me a lot of work to link. The generic names of each species derive from an Ancient Greek bird name. Calandrella derives from Καλάνδρος, the Ancient Greek name for the Calandra Lark. Dacnis derives from the Ancient Greek Δάκνις which was a bird found in Egypt during ancient times.
Wikipedia is your friend
Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
You could have gone for 'birds beginning with Bla-' 🤩8461 Black-legged Dacnis
OK, this one took me a lot of work to link. The generic names of each species derive from an Ancient Greek bird name. Calandrella derives from Καλάνδρος, the Ancient Greek name for the Calandra Lark. Dacnis derives from the Ancient Greek Δάκνις which was a bird found in Egypt during ancient times.
Wikipedia is your friend
dantheman
Bah humbug
Or re-arrange the letters in the last name, with the exchange of one letter for another, to get a boys name?
8462 Viridian Dacnis8461 Black-legged Dacnis
OK, this one took me a lot of work to link. The generic names of each species derive from an Ancient Greek bird name. Calandrella derives from Καλάνδρος, the Ancient Greek name for the Calandra Lark. Dacnis derives from the Ancient Greek Δάκνις which was a bird found in Egypt during ancient times.
Wikipedia is your friend
A lot less work for me
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
8464 White-throated Babbler (parts of the neck)
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
Oh, we're way past tenuous.
Out of curiosity, MacBirdie, did you have something more obvious to play, such as something with "white" or "neck" or another babbler?
My problem is that I only have four more to play, we don't have many people left, and much of the game now seems to be going on while I'm asleep. So I have limited options to participate anymore.
And frankly, I wish you had played the grasswren, because I have something to play from that one.
MacBirdie
still a newbie...
Since we are in tenuous mode, why not continue the white theme and post the Grasswren?Oh, we're way past tenuous.
My problem is that I only have four more to play, we don't have many people left, and much of the game now seems to be going on while I'm asleep. So I have limited options to participate anymore.
And frankly, I wish you had played the grasswren, because I have something to play from that one.
I'm dying to play something here that could be linked to chips, but I just don't have anything. Have all the birds with 'chocolate' in their name been played already?
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
No birds with "Chili and Lime" or "Cool Ranch" either. Maybe a doradito? 🙃
If everyone is good with that, proceed Arbu.
Best I can do is: "I now belong to a higher cult of mortals for I have seen the..."
... 8467 Paramillo Tapaculo
