Hi All,
I am an American who listens in on your list and never posts, but I thought
I'd add my two cents here. I've always had mixed feelings about standardized
common names--isn't that what the scientific names are for? But I have been
reading about the "Jabiru" on the list for the past week or two now, since it
first appeared. Until this discussion about names, I truly thought that a
Jabiru, Jabiru mycteria, had appeared in Australia. That seemed pretty rare
to me! I didn't realize that it was a Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus
asiaticus, that you all were talking about. Possibly it doesn't make any
difference what some Yank thinks about your rarities--why should it? But on
the other hand, if you didn't want others to know about exactly what you had
seen, why bother posting it at all? My two cents--
Bill Benner
Old Brookville, NY, USA
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