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14 Wednesday Nov 2018

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature

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birding, birds with brown plumage, birdwatching, brown birds, brown feathers, LBJ, little brown job, small brown birds

In birder-speak (and, actually, also in mycologist-speak), there’s an oft-used abbreviation for those small brown birds that look very much alike and so can sometimes be difficult to identify: LBJ (Little Brown Job). I think you can see why.

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(To be completely honest, not all of these images are from LBJs; some are from BBJs. I won’t ask you to guess what they are.)

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Little brown jobs

27 Saturday Jan 2018

Posted by sconzani in fungi, nature

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British fungi, brownish fungi, difficult to identify fungi, fungi, fungus, little brown job

Though I have since learnt that this expression is also used by birders, ‘Little brown job’ is a term I first heard used in relation to fungi, the many and varied, brownish-hued conglomerations of fungi that have few distinguishing characteristics (unless you’re a whizz with a microscope) and so can often be notoriously difficult to identify. Here are some I’ve seen this week.

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