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  1. Lerxst

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

    I agree. How, exactly, is the name "Anna's Hummingbird" a barrier?
  2. Lerxst

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

    Source?
  3. Lerxst

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

    I hope this is true and will feel better when I see an official announcement. At such a time, I may re-engage with Cornell regarding their stance on keeping the IOC version of the checklist available in eBird. One can select "English (IOC)" on the app as of today, but given their full-throated...
  4. Lerxst

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

    Thanks for providing examples.
  5. Lerxst

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

    Who is the person and how do we know he is merely an agitator? I'm curious as to what other info you might have about that. For those who have not followed the Bird Names for Birds crowd, you may not be aware of just how obsessed they are with "Whiteness." The following quotes are their own...
  6. Lerxst

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

    Because that isn't their motivation. It is just a talking point. Go to the source, the BN4B site, and read what they say, because they are quite clear. Their very first substantive sentence is: Even if every person of color was sanguine or indifferent about eponyms, they'd all still need to be...
  7. Lerxst

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

    I see that the petition to the AOS to take a measured approach has now passed 2,500. That is a notable milestone, as it is the figure that was quoted by the AOS in their announcement that they would eliminate all eponyms.
  8. Lerxst

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

    Agreed, but he was not the first. Christian Cooper had a recent rant in favor of the AOS virtue signaling, in which he pointed out that we do not have "Hitler's Warbler." I'm not making this up.
  9. Lerxst

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

    The BEST response I have read yet comes from Steve Howell, author of the great Mexico field guide. A perfect rejoinder to the pablum from Kaufman. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_9skEos61uI-F1KWo3ciNVLLTEBFejmhLztZdWpJMVA/edit
  10. Lerxst

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

    For you and me, yes, but not for the iconoclasts. These distinctions do not enter their calculus at all. I understand the difference you are pointing to, but again, that doesn't matter to those who want to remove references to names as a general rule. Myself I don't make the demarcation...
  11. Lerxst

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

    Units barely scratch the surface. In my field, almost all of our crown jewels -- hell, almost every last jewel, gem, rock, and pebble, for that matter -- are named for people... The Dirac equation, the Pauli principle, the Zeeman effect, the Michaelson-Morley experiment, Newtonian telescope...
  12. Lerxst

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

    And I doubt Kaufman's opinion sample is any closer to 45 million than ours is.
  13. Lerxst

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

    There was a time when Kaufman made a big deal about being apolitical. He has a quote attributed to him, something along the lines of, and I paraphrase, "birds use both the left wing and the right wing to fly." He certainly did embrace one specific wing on this matter.
  14. Lerxst

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

    How many days did it take to get the 2,500? Should one expect the same level of online engagement and activism between younger (and generally more left-leaning) and older (generally more conservative) birders? Much has been made about the biased nature of the poll in this thread, which shows...
  15. Lerxst

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

    Thanksgiving thoughts about a guy with two (South American) birds named for him: https://legallyblindbirding.net/2023/11/22/an-unusual-day-of-thanks-in-september-1869/
  16. Lerxst

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

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Replace the eponyms on all Phylloscopus warblers with accurate descriptive names that capture their differences. Go. Western Bonelli's warbler, Eastern Bonelli's warbler, Hume's leaf warbler Brooks's leaf warbler, Pallas's leaf warbler, Tytler's...
  17. Lerxst

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

    The NACC voted unanimously in favor of your perfect world approach. I've been having an interesting email correspondence with James Remsen about this. So the experts on naming/biology on the most relevant committee within the AOS were being quite rational and accommodating. It was...
  18. Lerxst

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

    Well said.
  19. Lerxst

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

    Pity that this issue is too trivial to warrant the attention of Gallup or some entity that could do a reliable sampling of opinion.
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