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‘Rainbow’, ‘like a cricket’: every bird in South Africa now has an isiZulu name

An effort to create names for wild bird species in the Indigenous language hopes to strengthen conservation research.
  1. Sarah Wild
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Researchers hope that the Rudd’s lark’s new isiZulu name — unonhlozi — could bolster conservation efforts to protect the small endangered lark (Heteromirafra ruddi). Unonhlozi means eyebrows, a nod to the bird’s wizard-worthy eyebrows, and it is one of many new isiZulu words that researchers have created for South Africa’s birds.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01678-1

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  1. Buchmann, E. et al. S. Afr. J. Sci. 120, 16184 (2024).

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