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Saturday, 12 June 2010 16:05 |
Webcam – new residents
The roof of our University building hosts new inhabitants! After recent hatching of Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) new residents settled on the roof – two pairs of Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) and one pair of Common Gull (Larus canus). The webcam is not pointed at the Common Gull nest – two hatchlings are already born so do not forget to check the stream!
http://tjeld.uib.no/videoframe.html
Language confusion
My opinion is that naming of the birds in different languages must be quite easy but the opposite is true. Common Gull is Racek bouřní in Czech, which means something like „Storm Gull“ and Fiskemåke in Norwegian with the meaning „Fish Gull“…well and this applies to all bird names and languages, it is much more convenient to know Latin names of the birds but who knows that, I don’t…
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Last Updated on Thursday, 27 January 2011 09:23 |
