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  1. wheatearlp

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

    Not overly fussed by this, they have to be called something in English (apparently 😉). However, I do hate the practice of just sticking a compass point, region or continent in front of an existing name to create a less confusing or less ambiguous name. I accept some of these names are...
  2. wheatearlp

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

    Whether or not you get upset about 'seagull' doesn't change the fact that neither 'seagull' nor gull (or duck) are species. Naming species was the question being asked at that point. I'm seen by friends as being very pedantic in all matters, however I do take the point being made above. It's...
  3. wheatearlp

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

    That's why I said "Do any other countries where the shearwater appears have names..."
  4. wheatearlp

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

    Does Toanui translate to English? Do any other countries where the shearwater appears have names that translate to English? If so, perhaps there is the answer as the question is out there?
  5. wheatearlp

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

    Doesn't make any sense for the goose or the plover, never mind the gull. It's just adding random qualifiers to a name to solve an imaginary problem.
  6. wheatearlp

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

    I'd vote for no work. Too old to be learning a whole raft of new names in one go. One or two every couple of years would be my limit 🙂 Mind you, without suddenly changing my thoughts on travel, I'm unlikely to see more than the five of that lot that I have already seen 🤔
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