[birdky] Re: No sighting. Literary/bird question: what is a quebrantahuessoses?
- From: "geraldrobe" <geraldrobe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "BIRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:06:34 -0400
A Lammergeier is an old-world vulture with black wings & back and white
underparts. I wonder if he could have been seeing Ospreys?
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From: Charles Crawford
To: BIRDKY
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:31 PM
Subject: [birdky] Re: No sighting. Literary/bird question: what is a
quebrantahuessoses?
Well so far the best info is from Ben Albritton who found via Google a
Spanish article mentioning
quebrantahuesos (short one s).
He could translate it, and came up with Bearded Vulture.
I went with his lead and went to a Spanish-English website and came up with
Bearded Vulture or Lammegeier.
I have heard of the Lammegeier on PBS shows.
So it sounds like some kind of vulture, or a bird that looked like one to
Captain Cook.
Maybe a California Condor or a Turkey Vulture.
How common were the condors back about 1779??
Charlie
Henderson Co.
On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Charles Crawford wrote:
I have been reading "The Voyages of Captain Cook"On his 3rd voyage heading up
the west coast of North America he refers to the birds he encounters.Quote: "or
flying about in flocks
or pairs, the chief of which were a few quebrantahuessoses,
divers, ducks, or large peterels, gulls, shags, and burres."I know about
divers, ducks, petrels and shags.But what the heck are
quebrantahuessoses????????????Google and Bing only come up with the text of the
book.Or what about a burre???Google only comes up with recent people with that
name.CharlieHenderson Co.
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