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  1. l_raty

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

    They were apparently reviewing the legislation anyway, so all of the procedures (filing, having the bill signed, etc.) had to be done, irrespective of whether this particular amendment was included or not. I may be wrong, but I doubt it actually took much more than half-an-hour of work to a...
  2. l_raty

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

    This is what appears to be the final text (minus the line numbers) : 23A-12-102. Naming conventions for birds. (1) As used in this section: (a) "English-language name" means the name: (i) assigned to a bird by a naming entity for use by the English-speaking public; and (ii) that may differ from...
  3. l_raty

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

    https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0382.html
  4. l_raty

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

    "Pine-woods Sparrow" (for aestivialis) and "Bachman's Sparrow" (for bachmani) coexisted on the AOU checklist from the 1st (1886) through the 4th (1931) eds; in the 5th (1957) ed, the use of English names for subspecies was discontinued and "Bachman's" was chosen to denote the species as a whole...
  5. l_raty

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

    What was actually closest to a "general discussion thread on the subject", was the thread that was closed 3 months ago (due to uncivil behaviour of some posters). The thread that was mostly used recently for general discussion was created specifically as a poll, with an explicit statement of...
  6. l_raty

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

    I remember an online discussion, which took place at some point around 2010 on one of the Listservs or Yahoo groups of the time, in which a guy explained that he was working on tracing changes in the wintering range of Clangula hyemalis based on records published in the birding literature... And...
  7. l_raty

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

    "Bearded Reedling" can be traced at least back to the 1830s -- e.g., Blyth 1837 : Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology (Around the same time, "reedling" was also used for Acrocephalus (then Salicaria / Calamoherpe) warblers -- e.g., also...
  8. l_raty

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

    Well, anyway, once we'll have renamed everything, we'll cease being able to retrieve data from older sources, and change will not be demonstrable any more...
  9. l_raty

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

    Mark Catesby, in 1731 (cited by Linnaeus in the description of the bird), about "The Baltimore-Bird", v.1 (1729-1732) - The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands - Biodiversity Heritage Library : So, yes, it looks like it may well be. And also deeply linked to colonialism...
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