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[dossy]

Can anyone tell me what bird this is? He just made me smile with his ambitious lifting!

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Thanks for looking!

 

[Allan]

yellow-crowned night heron

 

[dossy]

yellow-crowned night heron

Thanks Allan!

 

[fishbio]

agree with Allan but to be absolutely correct, it's
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
There's no accounting for why some names are written as they are.
Larry

 

[Palouse]

agree with Allan but to be absolutely correct, it's
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
There's no accounting for why some names are written as they are.
Larry

That's why biologists need to study grammar!

 

[fishbio]

That's why biologists need to study grammar!

One problem is that there seems to be no rhyme or reason to hyphenations. Capitalization of names is fairly consistent, though.
A dose of Latin doesn't hurt, either .

Larry

 

[dossy]

agree with Allan but to be absolutely correct, it's
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
There's no accounting for why some names are written as they are.
Larry

That's why biologists need to study grammar!

One problem is that there seems to be no rhymor reason to hyphenations. Capitalization of names is fairly consistent, though.
A dose of Latin doesn't hurt, either .

Larry

A bird by any other name....! Thank you both Larry and Nick. I guess biology and grammar both involve some form of dissection