Israel’s National Bird Poll: Barn Owl & Lesser Kestrel
Posted in Nature on May 6th, 2008
To follow up with some more candidates for Israel’s bird poll, here are two more beauties: the Barn Owl (’Tinshemet’ in Hebrew) and the Lesser Kestrel (’Buz Adom’). This whole exercise seems to be an interesting lesson in exploring human anthropocentrism in naming other species.
Barn Owl
Lesser Kestrel
We don’t really understand what’s “lesser” about such a [...]
