Post by BuckSkin on Mar 16, 2022 9:25:46 GMT
I searched this question and came out more confused than before I started.
(Major gripe = internet searches are becoming more and more useless; with our very first computer, way back about 2005, me knowing absolutely nothing about what I was doing, I could type a question and the first thing that came up would be the answer --- not so anymore --- just pages and pages of confusion and conflicting information.)
Are Pigeons, and therefore Doves, considered "Songbirds" ; or, are they a species all their own ?
The reason I wish to know is I have been trying to intelligently group my "Bird" keyword tags into sub-tags.
When things first started out ages ago, all Birds were just Bird; that soon became overwhelming; so, I added some sub-tags, such as Cardinal, Hawk, Crow, Buzzard, Turkey and so forth and so on.
That soon grew out of hand and thousands of unidentified birds were just Bird; so, I added an Unidentified Bird sub-tag.
Lately, I have been reorganizing with Songbird, Raptor, Upland Game Bird, Waterfowl, Crow and what have you; which just brought another question to mind --- an Owl is a predator; does that make it a Raptor ?
(Major gripe = internet searches are becoming more and more useless; with our very first computer, way back about 2005, me knowing absolutely nothing about what I was doing, I could type a question and the first thing that came up would be the answer --- not so anymore --- just pages and pages of confusion and conflicting information.)
Are Pigeons, and therefore Doves, considered "Songbirds" ; or, are they a species all their own ?
The reason I wish to know is I have been trying to intelligently group my "Bird" keyword tags into sub-tags.
When things first started out ages ago, all Birds were just Bird; that soon became overwhelming; so, I added some sub-tags, such as Cardinal, Hawk, Crow, Buzzard, Turkey and so forth and so on.
That soon grew out of hand and thousands of unidentified birds were just Bird; so, I added an Unidentified Bird sub-tag.
Lately, I have been reorganizing with Songbird, Raptor, Upland Game Bird, Waterfowl, Crow and what have you; which just brought another question to mind --- an Owl is a predator; does that make it a Raptor ?
