In 2008, biologist Bret Whitney at Louisiana State University was doing field work in the Amazon when he heard a bird sing a song he'd never heard before.

After analyzing its DNA, Whitney realized he'd found a new species of puffbird: stout, fluffy birds with exceptionally large heads that live mostly solitary lives in the Amazonian treetops.

Whitney named it Nystalus obamai in a June 2013 Handbook of the Birds of the World paper in honor of Barack Obama's impact on the development of green technology—particularly solar energy—that could help preserve ecosystems like N. obamai's.

IF YOU WERE TO NAME A BIRD AFTER PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, WHAT BIRD WOULD IT BE??

In 2008, biologist Bret Whitney at Louisiana State University was doing field work in the Amazon when he heard a bird sing a song he'd never heard before.
After analyzing its DNA, Whitney realized he'd found a new species of puffbird: stout, fluffy birds with exceptionally large heads that live mostly solitary lives in the Amazonian treetops.
Whitney named it Nystalus obamai in a June 2013 Handbook of the Birds of the World paper in honor of Barack Obama's impact on the development of green technology—particularly solar energy—that could help preserve ecosystems like N. obamai's.
IF YOU WERE TO NAME A BIRD AFTER PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, WHAT BIRD WOULD IT BE??

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