Re: Book Search

["T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

>        Ornithologists here in the States monkey around with common names all
> the time. I don't know why and it's very irritating. For instance, the
> "Whistling" Swan is now officially the "Tundra" Swan, the old "Baltimore"
> Oriole is now the "Northern" Oriole. The Sparrow Hawk was changed to Kestrel,
> but the European Kestrel is a very different bird.

My favorite is "rock dove" for a certain extremely common, often urban,
bird that EVERYONE ELSE calls by another name....

Mandating vernacular English names is a pretty silly and redundant
idea, IMHO.
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