Pictured is an Anna’s hummingbird. (Photo by Ken Burton)
Wildlife biologist and writer Ken Burton will give a presentation March 6 as a part of a First Wednesday Lecture Series sponsored by Friends of the Arcata Marsh.
His discuss on “Who Were Those Birds Named After?” can be held on the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, 569 S G St, Arcata, beginning at 7 p.m., adopted by a Q&A session.
According to a press launch for the occasion, “Birders routinely use honorific bird names without thinking or even knowing anything about the people behind them. Who were Anna, Forster, Lincoln, Vaux and Wilson?”
Burton will current transient biographies of those and others after whom some birds of the Arcata Marsh had been named.
Since all honorific hen names are slated to be modified quickly, this presentation will function a form of farewell to those folks of the ornithological previous. Burton additionally will focus on how organisms get named and discuss in regards to the present renaming debate.
Burton is a principally retired wildlife biologist who now leads excursions and writes books and journal articles. He coordinates the weekly Arcata Marsh hen walk program and is the writer of “Common Birds of the Arcata Marsh,” “Common Birds of Northwest California” and “A Birding Guide to Humboldt County.”
His presentation will even be simulcast through Zoom on the following hyperlink:
and can be uploaded afterward to the FOAM YouTube channel.
For extra data, name the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center at 707-826-2359.
