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Quirky Words for Gray Birds

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:01:45
Publish Date: 2025-06-02 07:00:00
Description:

Many birds have common names that refer to their dominant body color, like the Gray Catbird. Yet some species of gray birds received more colorful descriptors than others. Silvered, plumbeous, glaucous, and slate are just some of the bird world’s many shades of gray!

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