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A waggie is a dialect term for the pied wagtail, a small passerine bird found in Britain and Ireland, Latin name Motacilla laba yarrellii.

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A waggie is a dialect term for the pied wagtail, a small passerine bird found in Britain and Ireland, Latin name Motacilla laba yarrellii.

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Yes, there is no such thing as a rex, constrictor, capensis, camelus, nigrescens, burchellii or anatinus if you know what I mean. No-one can recognise a species simply from the species name. But there are such things as Tyrannosaurus rex, Boa constrictor, Motacilla capensis, Struthio camelus et cetera, which are easily recognisable now with their genera. The real 'type' of animal or plant you are referring to is actually held within the genus, recognised by the genus. The species is simply a modification or qualification of the genus, as an adjective is to a noun, and serves to differentiate separate species from one another. The genus is always (certainly should always) be unique and ever-recognisable. Thus Boa is instantly recognisable as a giant snake, Struthio is always recognisable as an ostrich and Acacia is ever-recognisable as an Australian tree once allied to the famous thorn-trees of Africa. The species name is the modification and identifier to the level below that of genus. Thus Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia saligna and Acacia mearnsii are all species of Acacia. Notice how much sense those species names would make on their own. None at all.

Of course, you can imagine a paper written entirely about a single genus. The first time the genus is mentioned it hasto be written in full. Thus, a paper about ostriches will have the genus Struthio written out in full the first time it appears. After that, Struthio may be abbreviated to S., when the species are mentioned over and over (S. camelus, S. molybdophanes) and the genus-repetition gets ink-wasting and time-using. There is no chance of confusion due to the pre-mention of the genus in full. However, this abbreviation is not generally a good thing at all times, even for famous creatures. Tyrannosaurus might be famous enough to be called T. rex without confusion most of the time, but imagine if someone really meant Thalassornis rex or Thylacinus rex (such creatures do not exist as far as I know and serve only as illustration): then indeed there shall be confusion. There certainly is the "rex" designation of the king cheetah, where 'rex' is not even a species or subspecies name. Thus, even the famous 'rex' should not be used by itself, unless of course you know you are talking about cheetahs or tyrannosaurs or perhaps even shoebills (Balaeniceps rex).

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Many species of birds live in the tropical rain forests all aound the world. Some of them are:

South America:

Quetzal, macaw, hummingbirds, eagles, ovenbirds, antbirds, flycatchers, puff-birds, toucans, honey-creepers, wild turkeys etc.

Australia:

Cassowary, brolga, emerald dove, orange-footed scrubfowl, Australian brush-turkey, sarus crane, fruit dove, topknot pigeon, Australian king parrot, lesser sooty owl, barred cuckoo-shrike, golden whistler, etc.

South East Asia:

Tree swifts, fairy bluebirds, fantails, whistlers, flowerpeckers, wood swallows, jungle crows, jungle fowls etc.

West Africa:

Congo peafowl, African Gray Parrot, toucans, macaws etc.

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