White-winged Black Tern's name

[Nikolas Haass <>]

Hi Chris (x2), John, Philip & Ed,

I agree with John & Chris that the birds look like 1st winter White-winged 
Terns.

And yes, Ed is right, both IOC and Clements call them White-winged Tern. 

However, the old name was White-winged Black Tern (no hyphen), which is likely 
a more descriptive name and not a classifier for a group (Chlidonias doesn't 
stand for 'Black-Tern'; it rather stands for 'Marsh-Tern'). This is in contrast 
to the hyphenated birds that Philip mentioned, which all classified a 
group: Black-Cockatoo is used only for Calyptorhynchus, Bronze-Cuckoo stands 
for Australian Chrysococcyx (with Black-eared Cuckoo being the exception), 
Reed-Warbler describes a number of Acrocephalus.

Nikolas
 
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Nikolas Haass

Sydney, NSW


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From: Ed Williams <>
To: Philip Veerman <> 
Cc: Birding Aus <> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:20 PM
Subject: White-winged Black Tern's name
 
Hi Phillip,

Technically now isn't it White-winged Tern to be in line with IOC naming?

Thus making the second hyphen no longer required. 

Cheers,

Ed



Ed Williams

On 06/02/2013, at 3:55 PM, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:

> Maybe I have missed something here. Why is there no hyphen as in
> White-winged Black-Tern, rather than White-winged Black Tern? There is a
> hyphen on other composite group names e.g. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo,
> Bronze-Cuckoos, Reed-Warbler, etc.
> Philip
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