nowing your birds obviously means you must know their name. My daughter’s solution to the problem is calling them water chicken, dust chicken, fish chicken, bee chicken, sugar chicken etc. That’s the baseline. Next in line is knowing them according to your mother tongue. Going to the next level is calling them by their scientific name. If you are an old hand at birding (age and birding experience) you call them by their Roberts number, like
What’s in a name
Dec 01, 2021
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