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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/should-we-be-naming-species-after-people
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    You can, then, use the alkane-alkene-alkyne tactic employed by Polish taxonomists, and have 'Wrens', 'Wrans' and 'Wryns' depending on genus (or 'Thresh' and 'Thrash' for the some Asian thrushes). Plus scores of unrelated blahblah-birds: Sicklebird, Weedbird, Herbagebird, Smokebird, Blazebird...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Polish bird names generally have no eponyms unless they're named after Polish people, of course (think every (sub)species ever described by a Polish person, give or take).
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