Little brown job
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Little brown jobbie or LBJ is an informal name commonly used by birders for any of the large number of species of small brown passerine
birds, many of which are notoriously difficult to distinguish.
Passerine
A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders: with over 5,000 identified species, it has roughly...
birds, many of which are notoriously difficult to distinguish.
See also
- Damned yellow compositeDamned yellow compositeA damned or damn yellow composite is a jocular reference to the difficulty of distinguishing many of the numerous species of composite that have yellow flowers and can be difficult to tell apart in the field. It is sometimes reserved for those yellow composites of no particular interest...
, a similar term for the numerous difficult-to-identify dandelion-like plants