Comments on: The Tuluver, A New Species of Bird https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/05/the-tuluver-a-new-species-of-bird/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:24:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: George https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/05/the-tuluver-a-new-species-of-bird/#comment-471717 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:24:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21492#comment-471717 Feh. I hate birds. Stupid therapods that shit all over the place. If it weren’t for their vital roll in insect control …..

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/05/the-tuluver-a-new-species-of-bird/#comment-471716 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:44:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21492#comment-471716 Huh. Nowadays they don’t even call it that? Arrrggh.

See :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture

Oh and it isn’t endangered quite now like I thought it was back then? Sheesh, is everything I thought I knew once wrong? Sigh.

Oh well, good to know it isn’t actually as threatened as I once thought though.

]]> By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/09/05/the-tuluver-a-new-species-of-bird/#comment-471715 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 15:34:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21492#comment-471715 Awesome news that this bird was .. (checks the intertoobs again) .. a hoax!?

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/conservation/conservation/were-you-tricked-by-the-tuluver-birdlife-invented-a-new-species-to-help-save-vultures

Dammnit! Okay, yes, I was tricked. Ya got me.

And my first fancy dress costume as a kid (well that i remember) was an African Lammergeier too, dangnabbit! Sigh.

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