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Niall
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14 Jan 2014, 11:20 am

A systemising birder notes that emu, snowy owl, toucan, pileated woodpecker and Deinonychus all have taxonomic meaning at either the species or genus level.

"Seagull" is taxonomically meaningless.

It just grates, but is there any change of making the system consistent?



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14 Jan 2014, 12:15 pm

No, sorry - but when you've made 1,000 posts you can set your own rank. :wink:


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