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

    Every culture has committed atrocities in the past, or at least individuals/groups from every culture. Including the Irish. And every non-European culture. I think what Xenospiza was getting at was the double standards employed by those who wish to change supposedly contentious names and like to...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    In addition to the questions raised above, do any of the people involved in the "Bird Names Four Birds" initiative have any background knowledge about bird name etymology (e.g. regarding older names that preceded some of the eponyms), or indeed the English language? How many of those who object...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    A poll with only 249 total votes is still better than Kaufman's undisclosed number on which his claim rests, though.
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