AOU-NACC Proposals 2024 (1 Viewer)

[Mysticete]

You know I wasn't serious right?

If Bermuda can get a Booted Eagle...

 

[Jacana]

That's never been a serious contender. IIRC the NACC is going for Cocos Booby, which complements the existing Nazca Booby; both are named after the geologic plates that correspond to their range.

I never brought it up when I first posted that proposal, but there is some salt to put it lightly about the whole eponym situation in that proposal, that I don't think was needed.

I also hesitated to mention it. But it is very interesting to see the different positions some members have on the Booby proposal vs the Cape Petrel proposal, which is even saltier!

 

[Mysticete]

I also hesitated to mention it. But it is very interesting to see the different positions some members have on the Booby proposal vs the Cape Petrel proposal, which is even saltier!

I will have to check that. As someone who has never seen that species nor is likely to see it in the nearish future, I didn't pay much attention to it.

 

[Andy Adcock]

The second one is definitely an Atlantic, not a Cocos/Brewster's. Juvenile Booby id is far out of my area of expertise and I am at work without the resources to check

Given recent events, 'Brewster's' is highly unlikely to stick so I woder what the name of the new species will be?

 

[Andy Adcock]

If Bermuda can get a Booted Eagle...

Did it?

That's an odd one, must be ship assisted and then island hopping?

 

[Jacana]

Given recent events, 'Brewster's' is highly unlikely to stick so I woder what the name of the new species will be?

Almost certainly Cocos Booby

 

[Kirk Roth]

Almost certainly Cocos Booby

There is a coconut joke here (English and Spanish) that fortunately I am far too sophisticated to mention. Coco is also slang for a beautiful girl and for cocaine. So this makes for a very thoughtful and politically correct bird name.

But at least it doesn't honor the co-founder of the AOU.

 

[Jacana]

Well, if we have to remove all the slang from bird names then I fear we have a greater problem on our hands with all those assorted tits, tit-tyrants, boobies, -peckers, -cocks, rheas, shags and thrushes 😅

 

[pbjosh]

There is a coconut joke here (English and Spanish) that fortunately I am far too sophisticated to mention. Coco is also slang for a beautiful girl and for cocaine. So this makes for a very thoughtful and politically correct bird name.

Isn’t coco a cocaine user not the drug itself, and I guess only in Mexico? And I haven’t run across coco for a woman before but there is different slang in every country. Coco can also mean clever or a crush as far as I know and I am sure plenty more.