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

    Last night, while reading Mysticete’s latest post, a question popped into my head that I hadn’t thought important before. Why does this have to change anything in field guides? Since the AOS is a private group, why do the rest of us have to put up with their nonsense? They can call birds...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    The petition here is essentially moot. The committee has met, discussed and come to a conclusion. The names will change, there might be some public input and comments and that’s that. Watch and see what’s next.
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Ah, now I see! Since I’m white, male, heterosexual, over 60, married, and descended from a Quaker from England, my thoughts and existence don’t really matter because they’re so oppressive no one not the same can live a full life as long as I derive any enjoyment of life and my accomplishments...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Since we’ve already eliminated species named after Hitler, Idi Amin, Attila the Hun, Pol Pot and so on, why change the names of birds named after people nobody’s heard of? I agree this is virtue-signaling silly wokeness of the highest order. If you have to search high and low to find out...
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