[Tweeters] Renaming birds, and other things

[Dennis Paulson]

On Nov 25, 2023, at 1:06 PM, HAL MICHAEL <ucd880 at comcast.net> wrote:

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> One problem with changing the name and consigning the older name(s) to the dustbin of history is that historic literature review becomes more difficult when names are lost or changed.


And this is especially true for birds, for which so much of the written word lacks the scientific name to go along with it, making it clear what it actually is! How good it would be if a future popular articles were titled something like “Suet-eating Warbler, Setophaga townsendi, parasitizes cowbird.” Several other names I came up with for this species were already taken by other warblers, so that committee has its work cut out for it!

Dennis Paulson
Seattle
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