Nature: Evening grosbeaks, having been gone from Ohio's land

Nature: Evening grosbeaks, having been gone from Ohio's landscape, are making appearances
Jim McCormac, Special to The Columbus Dispatch
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A pair of evening grosbeaks. Male above, female below.
On May 23, 1707, Carl Linnaeus was born. The Swedish scientist would revolutionize the naming of organisms with his system of binomial nomenclature. In the Linnaean system, an organism is branded with two names: genus and species. For instance, readers of this column, or at least most of them, are Homo sapiens.
These scientific names are sometimes more descriptive than common names. That’s the case with this column’s subject, Coccothraustes vespertinus. Translated from its Greek and Latin roots, the name means “kernel breaker of the evening”.

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