Tag: Sparrows

Even the Audubon Society online field guide describes their chirps as “shrill, monotonous, noisy” …rather value-loaded descriptors, huh? Even for the purportedly unbiased world of science, there is always a socio-cultural context, and in the North American birding world,...

Even the Audubon Society online field guide describes their chirps as “shrill, monotonous, noisy” …rather value-loaded descriptors, huh? Even for the purportedly unbiased world of science, there is always a socio-cultural context, and in the North American birding world,...

The top part is 广, a radical that can indicate a structure or vastness, and the bottom part is 林, which means “forest” or “woods” and is composed of two trees (木). Not sure why, but maybe as a memory hook, you could visualize a vast forest of hemp plants? 雀 (...