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Taxonomic Tidy Up – as it affects waders.
18 Jun 2025

Taxonomic Tidy Up – as it affects waders.

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Recently, most of the influential list-keepers of the world’s birds, got together and, between them, created a definitive, universal, taxonomic list of the birds of the world and they called it Avilist – The Global Avian Checklist. This may come as … Continued

A mythical Māori bird is gone, but its name still lives on (albeit in an extinct bird!)
2 Jul 2020

A mythical Māori bird is gone, but its name still lives on (albeit in an extinct bird!)

by | posted in: Hakawai, melvillei, mythology, Our Blogs, Pedionomus, Seedsnipes, Snipes, torquatus, Waders | 0

This is a story that would sit well in the pages of An Inspiration Of Waders, our last book where we investigated how waders have inspired, among other things, myths and legends. This is the story of the Hakawai, a … Continued

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