Vernacular names

["Terry Pacey" <>]

Hugo said " so, for example, a birder from Canada, a zoologist from South
Africa, a town planner from Tasmania and a conservation activist from
Kalgoorlie can talk to one another about birds and not be confused".

Surely this is the point I made.  This will only work IF all those involved
are birders.  What the town planner in Hobart or the conservationist in
Kalgoorlie know the birds as may cause, rather than prevent, confusion.  The
fact that " A lot of work was done to arrive at the present list of RENs in
C&B, including getting members of bird clubs to vote on many of them."
simply shows that the majority of people, non-birders, were ignored in the
process.

Terry Pacey

Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to