Birdword: An Illustrated Guide to Some Tongue-Twisting Ornithological Terms

Birdword: An Illustrated Guide to Some Tongue-Twisting Ornithological Terms

Birdword is a recurring feature in Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. They’re sometimes called technical terms, eight-dollar-words, jargon, or just plain gobbledygook. But hidden inside those multisyllabic ornithological utterances are keys to fascinating behaviors, time machines to take you back to ancient Greek and Latin, and sly insights to the minds of scientists at work. In this recurring feature by illustrator Rosemary Mosco we break dow…