Jan
08
The Barn Owl is a stunningly beautiful bird with a distinctive white heart shaped face, often seen at dusk quartering rough grassland in search of its main prey, the short-tailed vole. With rich, apricot coloured upper-parts laced with silver grey and pure white under-parts the Barn Owl’s flight is buoyant and wonderfully graceful. A Barn …
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Oct
02
The order of species in every bird guide, and every bird list, depends on a taxonomy. It is linear, running from start to finish, but it flattens an underlying tree structure – the tree of life. This is a whole article by itself. Of concern here is that there’s almost a taxonomy of taxonomies – …
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