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Jan 17, 2019

For me, unusual bird names keep popping up...

Photo: Umeshscrinivasan
A tiny Mrs. Gould's Sunbird (Aethopyga gouldiae) feeds on cherry flowers (left)  at a conservation park at the Doi Inthanon National Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand.   The Irish ornithologist Nicholas Vigers named the bird after Elizabeth Gould, a British artist and wife of naturalist John Gould.
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BarrytheBirder

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