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Tangents Rostratula benghalensis or Greater Painted Snipe, Bangladesh. Photo: Ihtisham kabir In 1758, the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus introduced a naming system for living organisms. It was standardized by scientists worldwide, giving us scientific names for species, The Linnaean system arose from the need to uniquely identify each species and categorize or classify living beings into groups. The common name of a bird may change from country to country, but its Linnaean name remains the sam...