Meet The Real Birds Of ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’ Fame
<p>Since today is the fifth (or the sixth) day of Christmas, I thought I’d share the real species identities of all the birds mentioned in the famous English Christmas carol, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” , as identified by Pamela Rasmussen, an integrative biologist at <a href="https://msu.edu/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Michigan State University</a>, and coordinator of MSU’s crowd-sourced global bird sounds website, <a href="http://avocet.zoology.msu.edu/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">AVoCet</a>.</p>
<p>“Like most people in the US, I grew up knowing the words to this carol and even (shudder) singing them occasionally (singing is not a strong point of mine), but never really thought about what they meant, how the carol originated, or what birds were involved”, says Dr Rasmussen in email. So she decided to figure it out.</p>
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