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Winchell's kingfisher
- ... that a British ornithologist named Winchell's kingfisher after an American geologist? Source: "This species is named, by Dr. Steere's request, after his friend and old tutor, Mr. Winchell." Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. This source confirms that "Mr. Winchell" is the geologist Newton Horace Winchell.
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... that a British ornithologist named Winchell's kingfisher, found in the Philippines, after an American geologist, at the request of an American ornithologist? - ALT2:
... that Winchell's kingfisher has been recorded nesting in a termite nest?Source: "One nest was found in an old arboreal termite nest" IUCN Red List
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- Reviewed: Telfair Hodgson
5x expanded by Gulumeemee (talk). Self-nominated at 03:08, 23 June 2018 (UTC).