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    AOU 2018 Checklist proposals

    Really? And you call yourself a world birder! ;)
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    AOU 2018 Checklist proposals

    A fair point and a strong reason not to standardize common names but let each region stick to its own.
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    AOU 2018 Checklist proposals

    We might if we cared what names Europen field guides use but we don’t so you have nothing to fear. . .. That said, how anyone could prefer a vanilla name like “diver” to “loon” with its evocation of crazy calls in the northern wilderness is beyond me!
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    AOU 2018 Checklist proposals

    Two words for the same thing, one Anglo-Saxon (dove), the other French (pigeon), used interchangeably. A foolish consistency. . . the hobgoblin of little minds. . ..
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    AOU 2018 Checklist proposals

    Hooray! One pointless name change undone, n to go. . ..
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