[obol] bird names (was "Steller's...")

Wink Gross winkg at hevanet.com
Wed Aug 15 14:18:26 PDT 2007


Doesn't Cassin hold the record in NA?

Vireo, Kingbird, Finch, Auklet, Sparrow.  A quick Google image
search also turned up a Cassin's Honeyguide.  Are there more?

Who was he/she, anyway?

Wink Gross
Portland

 >
 >Back to birds: There are at least three bird species -- Jay, Eider, and Sea
 >Eagle -- named after Steller. Are there any other birds named after him?
 >Alexander Wilson has at least four birds named after him (Warbler, 
Phalarope,
 >Plover, Storm-Petrel)....
 >
 >
 >Dave




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