At least I know you're talking about ducks and gulls. I'm guessing
Wigeons and the Black-headed Gull. I worked at learning the scientific
names but I've forgotton most of them.

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Cliff Drake
Seattle WA (Ballard)
cliff at cliffdrake.net


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Tweeters] bird names
> From: Ian Paulsen <birdbooker at zipcon.net>
> Date: Sun, January 07, 2007 2:18 pm
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>
> HI:
> At least we do have standard English names for the species we are
> interested in. Most other branches in Zoology (and Botany) just use
> scientific names. How many people would complain if we posted our
> sightings on tweeters like this:
>
> Today I had a male Anas penelope in with a flock of A. americana.
> Couldn't find the Larus ridibundus that had been reported recently, but I
> did have one Clangula hyemalis.
>
> --
>
> Ian Paulsen
> Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
> A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
> "Rallidae all the way!"
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