{"id":10104,"date":"2015-06-30T04:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10104"},"modified":"2015-06-29T11:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:31:59","slug":"whats-so-tricky-about-a-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/whats-so-tricky-about-a-kingfisher\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s So Tricky About a Kingfisher?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sulawesi dwarf kingfisher<\/a> is neither common nor especially well known. But does that justify naming the poor bird\u00a0“the trickster,” as Hermann Schlegel did in 1866?<\/p>\n

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It’s not an infrequent name in the history of ornithology,\u00a0fallax<\/em>, and in this case, the original namer fills us in<\/a> on his reasons for calling\u00a0a newly discovered bird sneaky:<\/p>\n

Messrs von Rosenberg and Renesse van Duivenbode have sent us the skins of a species of kingfisher that, because of its small size and coloration, one would at first glance be tempted to think belonged to the three-toed species that make\u00a0up the modern naturalists’ subgenus Ceyx. Our new species, however, is furnished with four toes, and thus, it forms, so to speak, the transition from the Ceyx kingfishers to the others — while at the same time showing that the distinction\u00a0based on the number of toes is entirely secondary and artificial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tricky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sulawesi dwarf kingfisher is neither common nor especially well known. But does that justify naming the poor bird\u00a0“the trickster,” as Hermann Schlegel did in 1866? It’s not an infrequent name in the history of ornithology,\u00a0fallax, and in this case, the original namer fills us in on his reasons for calling\u00a0a newly discovered bird sneaky: … <\/p>\n

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