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  1. Swindon Addick

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    <Edit for context> This post was moved from another thread, where an argument about this issue had broken out. I was objecting to it being discussed on that thread, hence the use of a word in the discussion that I wouldn't have used on this thread. I just wanted to clarify that I have no...
  2. Swindon Addick

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I just really don't care about all this culture wars stuff. I looked up Verreaux on Wikipedia and TBH I can sympathise with why people might not want to be talking about him, but I don't care if the bird's named after him, or Stalin, or Mother Teresa. I was just pointing out that Facebook...
  3. Swindon Addick

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    A lot of the eponyms that people are whining about losing commemorate the person who funded the expedition that discovered the bird, rather than the scientist who wrote the paper that described it. So basically that's exactly where the original names came from. Doubtless someone will be...
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