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The Notes section is devoted to certain topics that are too complex or too interesting to cram into individual bird families.

family Writing Japanese bird names in kanji The ways in which the Japanese adapted Chinese characters to write the names of birds in Japanese.
family Of Orioles and Warblers How Japanese changed the Chinese word for 'oriole' to mean 'warbler'.
(Site uses UK spelling, e.g., "grey-coloured")