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  1. J

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

    "Ringed Warbler" was also an option I considered, and yes it would probably be better.
  2. J

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

    It might be an individual preference, but personally I find it more confusing to have two similar species that also have similar names (Western/Eastern Bonelli's, Western/Eastern Olivaceous, Tundra/Taiga Bean Goose, etc). I find it subconsciously focuses the mind on the similarities between...
  3. J

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

    I don't think it's too difficult to come up with alternative names. Especially if you accept that the name doesn't need to exclude all other species (which is true for many accepted names in the genus: Greenish, Green, Two-barred, Yellow-browed, Wood, Willow, Chinese, Japanese, etc. - no-one is...
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