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Latest Cal Nat Blog for August 9th, 2021

The benefit of common names versus Latin names

The naming of species is a critical task allowing us (naturalists and community scientists and other scientists) to know what we are talking about when we say we saw a blue bird today. But was it a Western or an Eastern Bluebird, or was it a Blue Jay, a California Scrub-Jay, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, a Stellar's...