Masked Cardinal
Sudama Woodlands
20Feb2018
In the tanager family Thraupidae
...usually travel in pairs and often
occur near water.
Paroaria nigrogenis
(L 7.1")
If there were no birds
Tchaikovsky would not have known what to
name his lake,
Keats would have written one less ode,
the Wright brothers would have stuck to
bicycles.
Two in the bush would be as good as an
empty hand,
there would be no Cardinals in the
Vatican,
and the world would be ruled by bugs.
(Gene Williamson)
Paroariais is a (Brazilian) for a small,
yellow, red and gray bird;
nigrogenis is Latin for black cheeks.
© Paul A
Schwartz
Macaulay
Library
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