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Giving up

10 June 20217 January 2021 ~ Pseudogryps

A few words can say a lot. For this post, I note 5 early examples of authors “giving up” on the continued existence of the California condor and doing so with a minimum of words.

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Comeback

24 October 202022 January 2021 ~ Pseudogryps

Ever interested in the language that humans choose when discussing the California condor, here I consider items published with the word “comeback” in the title. These span several decades.

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The name in many languages

10 October 202023 April 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

On 5 March 1858, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal about the value of learning the common names for species in another language:

In proportion as I understood the language, I saw them from a new point of view.

With this in mind, here are translations of the English-language name California condor into 21 other languages.

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Protect

17 September 202022 January 2021 ~ Pseudogryps

The words that humans choose when discussing the California condor reflect how we perceive these birds and our attitudes toward them. In this post, I consider the word “protect” in its various forms.

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As a grammatical modifier

10 August 202028 March 2020 ~ Pseudogryps

While stumbling around my bibliography about the California condor, I have noticed that there are condors and then there are “condor things”. This post is about the latter.

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