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  1. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    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.
  2. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    They are not even each others sister species or particularly close in the large white headed gulls. Unless you massively reduce the number of recognized species this split is mandatory and the evidence seems basically overwhelming.
  3. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    First just want to say that I think it’s really great that names are being circulated and feedback sought! For the wren, given that one form is already extinct and another presumed, a pragmatic answer would just be Dominica Wren, no? If it is rediscovered on Martinique it will be just be...
  4. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    I think this is a case where maintaining a link to the original or a novel name that provides some context is desirable in order to aid people in associating the name with the correct bird as wren names are kind of a soup of descriptors already. Spot-backed is apt but perhaps doesn’t help link...
  5. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    Red-bellied has some precedent for W birds I believe. But I don’t think that proposal has much chance of passing …
  6. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    I mean we're kind of stirring the pot here but I have to agree. IOC's ability to just decide things and move along - particularly on simple naming issues like hyphens, spelling corrections, etc, without a proposal process seems a lot more sensical given the limited time the folks involved have...
  7. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    I (right or wrong) have for some time taken the Redpoll case as a poster child for why the NACC is viewed as out of touch by a lot of people. While I personally have felt that this lump is inevitable and overdue, I am not trying to attack NACC, but rather comment that this case is one of the...
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