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Part VII - Not a Balrog...

Saturday, May 30, 2009

You may have thought that this one had gone away, or I had run out of stupid bird names for your delectation dear reader.

Not so!

If you are Swedish, there is a good possibility that your name could amuse English speakers with an idiosyncratic sense of humour and this one has. Especially as it is tagged onto a daft species name.

I present to you Olrog’s Cinclodes, Cinclodes olrogi.



I nicked this photo from a dude called Ramon Moller Jensen

Not a bad looking fella, eh?

Olrog was a Swedish Ornithologist/naturalist who spend most of his time in Argentina, where the LBJ lives (as does Ramon).

For the Larophiles out there, Olrog also has a gull named after him, but you knew that right?

Thanks again to Bo Boelens!

2 comments:

Alan Tilmouth said...

You'd like Jules blog in Norway, check out the Thor post on Dusty Bins.

Thing said...

Great blog, crazy names!

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