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  1. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    There is a lot of water between recognizing that English speakers decide English names, and saying that using non English words for birds is unacceptable, that we must stay with existing English words and not add any newly adopted terms to the lexicon. This topic gets beaten to death over and...
  2. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Indeed, but the fact remains that just as German names for all birds in the world are made by German speakers, English names for birds will generally be made by English speakers, and the major taxonomies are all now more or less curated / maintained by Americans, for better or worse. Though IOC...
  3. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Indeed, I too am opposed to new eponyms in most cases - they're simply not informative in the vast majority of cases. However in this case, the name Stejneger's Stonechat is not a new name. It's a bit of a weird situation, where the intention is good but the reality is that this is a pretty well...
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