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Which meaning of MILC: "Multi-dimensional In-depth Long-term Case studies (MILC)"And I recently discovered the difference between MILC and M**F. The rascals who made fun of me will understand the pointe.
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Nice photos Alan! I like both: the second one gives me a glimpse in the habitat were you are shooting - with that Crataegus (monogyna?) and the lichens...
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Why do you always use the Latin name? I belong to several serious bird organizations and no one ever uses the Latin even in formal occasions or mostly even knows the Latin name. The beauty of bird names is that they are often descriptive of the bird, and easy to remember and discuss in conversation or writing. This bird is a Bluethroat, and it is obvious to anyone what it is and everyone can remember what name it has. OK, a German speaker, for example, will use the German in Germany but do they know or use the Latin name when speaking to each other?
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Caesar himself did say something in his opening paragraph about you Celts wanting everything in your own language
. https://sacred-texts.com/cla/jcsr/dbg1.htm
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The ornithologists usually know the scientific names of the birds (for sure the names in the group of birds in which they specialize...). The problem with the common names is that they are frequently ambiguous. For one who doesn't have the English as a primary language it makes a kind of burden: So many times I have to search in the Internet via the Latin name in order to recover the common name (in English!) in my memory (old man
...). Many times the common name in English is popping up before I can recover the scientific name (go figure it 
)!Never mind! Today the clouds above the mountain were looking pretty hostile and I went to my favorite Botanical garden - to check if the gardeners are still keeping the barriers around the nest of the Japanese White-eye and how the birds are doing. Surprisingly for a fraction of the second I noticed a hatched bird trying to get food from the arrived parent (I missed the exact moment!!!). It seems I (we) can see fledglings in 10-14 days!
After that White-rumped Shama and Red-whiskered Bulbul.
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Caesar referred to the Gauls, not the Brits, as Celts in the first sentence of De Bello Gallico: ”Gaul is a whole divided into three parts, one of which is inhabited by the Belgae, another by the Aquitani, and a third by a people called in their own tongue Celtae, in the Latin Galli.” Gaul was in Continental Europe. The Welsh and the Scots are modern day Celts, linguistically, not the English. I recall Asterix the French Gaul visiting England once when he admired our lawns and tea drinking. He would send Obelix over to deal with you if you called him a Brit. The Welsh and the Scots would do the equivalent if you have the gall to call the English "Celts". Charles de Gaulle must be turning in his grave.Caesar himself did say something in his opening paragraph about you Celts wanting everything in your own language
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Easy, just learn this by the end of the day: https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/The ornithologists usually know the scientific names of the birds (for sure the names in the group of birds in which they specialize...). The problem with the common names is that they are frequently ambiguous. For one who doesn't have the English as a primary language it makes a kind of burden: So many times I have to search in the Internet via the Latin name in order to recover the common name (in English!) in my memory (old man
Never mind! Today the clouds above the mountain were looking pretty hostile and I went to my favorite Botanical garden - to check if the gardeners are still keeping the barriers around the nest of the Japanese White-eye and how the birds are doing. Surprisingly for a fraction of the second I noticed a hatched bird trying to get food from the arrived parent (I missed the exact moment!!!). It seems I (we) can see fledglings in 10-14 days!
After that White-rumped Shama and Red-whiskered Bulbul.
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