Bird Brain Blog https://birdbrainblog.com/ Birds. More birds. Maybe some stuff that's not birds? Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:23:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://birdbrainblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-Bird-Brain-favicon-32x32.png Bird Brain Blog https://birdbrainblog.com/ 32 32 How to Pronounce the Names of North America’s Bird Families https://birdbrainblog.com/2025/08/11/how-to-pronounce-the-names-of-north-americas-bird-families/ https://birdbrainblog.com/2025/08/11/how-to-pronounce-the-names-of-north-americas-bird-families/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:56:13 +0000 https://birdbrainblog.com/?p=704 Learn to pronounce the names of all 80 of North America’s bird families! (That’s “North America” by the definition of birders, which is actually just the parts of North America north of Mexico.) The list I used comes from...

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Learn to pronounce the names of all 80 of North America’s bird families! (That’s “North America” by the definition of birders, which is actually just the parts of North America north of Mexico.) The list I used comes from Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds website, and it includes both native and introduced families. 

You can also find these videos on a playlist on my YouTube channel.

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