I find the recent references to American scientific journals and the use of
non-capitalised bird names a bit confusing. I haven't seen any journals or
books that use lower case letters for bird names. But I must admit all the
journals I've read have been published by birding organisations. If the
general scientific community is using lower case, then this is not consistent
with the ornithological community. The American Birding Association, the
American Ornithologists Union and the Audubon Society use capitals, and all
published bird books use capitals. So who's not using capitals?
Gary Davidson,
Nakusp, BC
Canada
Dave Torr <> wrote:
The reference I quoted earlier (
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/rules-caps.html) specifically makes the point
that they are treating birds as a "special case" and that other animals
normally have lower case names. I am not sufficiently across other
publications to know whether this is true or not, but surely confusing
statements such as the one you have made could be just as easily applied to
some other animals - in which case one wonders how authors overcome the
problem?
On 30/12/2007, Neil Cheshire wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> The contagion of lower case for bird names has unfortunately spread from
> American scientific journals in
> recent years. The passage below perhaps illustrates the problem with this
> approach.
>
> " When the group arrived at the lake a little egret was seen and a few
> minutes later a larger egret flew in.
> Later a singing honeyeater was heard but this became inaudible when a
> noisy miner appeared."
>
> Somewhat inconsistently they retain capitals for a personal or
> geographical element of a bird name.
>
> Neil Cheshire
>
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