Comments on: The Young Birder’s Guide: A Bird Book for the Middle Schooler https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/21/the-young-birders-guide-a-bird-2/ Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:54:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Pete Moulton https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/21/the-young-birders-guide-a-bird-2/#comment-523556 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:54:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/21/the-young-birders-guide-a-bird-2/#comment-523556 “it is slightly disturbing that the loon is not listed as the first bird…”

Ah, you Minnesotans!

Actually, I know exactly what you mean, Greg. I’ve been birding long enough that I to am used to older versions of the taxonomy, which for their own inexplicable reasons always considered the loons ‘primitive’.

]]> By: RickK https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/21/the-young-birders-guide-a-bird-2/#comment-523555 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:39:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/21/the-young-birders-guide-a-bird-2/#comment-523555 Thanks for posting this. Will get 2 copies for my kids – they’re ready.

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