Del Richards wrote:
> As a guide I am eternally in the position of happily educating
> international birders on the name "gerygone". Their name should
> have been left as Warbler. In 40 plus years of listening to their
> varied and in some cases very beautiful calls I have always concluded
> that they were warbling.I have yet to hear one "gerygon-ing".
I disagree on this one.
It's much better to call them gerygones because that's what they are:
members of the genus Gerygone, subfamily Acanthizinae, family Pardalotidae.
Referring to gerygones as "warblers" probably dates back from when they
were lumped in with the Old World warblers, family Sylviidae, which we
now know that they aren't. They also aren't New World warblers, family
Parulidae.
Calling them "warblers" seems like a lost marketing opportunity to me;
gergone says: "These aren't birds you have at home, they're something
new and exciting!" ("Warbler" may indicate that the birds are difficult
to identify, but I'm not sure you want to advertise that. ;-) )
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