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Public Forums => San Gabriel Mtns Flora - Fauna => Topic started by: love_walnuts on Oct 22, 07, 01:36:53 PM
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I noticed this sub-catagory is for Flora and Fauna. What about the birds?
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Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.
Post away:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna
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Wrightwood beat me to it. But I want to add that the part about about fowl anyway:
Fauna are animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group, for example, the fauna of Wrightwood.
A bird is an animal. A fowl is a particular sort of bird either 1) in the order Galliformes such as a chicken or quail or 2) a bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.
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Wrightwood beat me to it. But I want to add that the part about about fowl anyway:
Fauna are animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group, for example, the fauna of Wrightwood.
A bird is an animal. A fowl is a particular sort of bird either 1) in the order Galliformes such as a chicken or quail or 2) a bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game.
I realized that after I posted the silly topic. (I always equate Fauna to the word Fawn <Thumping palm to forehead>) Anyway, I hope to get some shots of the wildbirds I do not know and post them to identify their type... What resources can you suggest to help identify the wildbirds? :book:
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To begin with, I would post them on this forum. There are a lot of knowledgeable birders reading it. Then, once you get a name, I would enter that name in a search engine with images selected to verify what it is.
For beginners, the best book out right now is:
Birds of the Los Angeles Region (Regional Bird Books) by Kimball L. Garrett, Jon L. Dunn, and Bob Morse (Paperback - Oct 21, 2006)
$10.85 on Amazon
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Thank you, Janie. I will check it out...
love_walnuts.
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My absolute favorite bird i.d. book is the "National Geographic field guide to the birds of north America."