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Regional names also preserve some subspecies identity too.
I'd like to see all subspecies have their own name, to aid in
conservational awareness.
Lumping subspecies together can just skew statistical information and
conservational status.
Alistair McKeough <>
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Denise Goodfellow <>
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Birding Aus <>
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Re: [Birding-Aus] One arm point and beyond(dampier peninsula, near Broome
Hear, hear Denise. The scientific names serve the purpose of avoiding
confusion for serious scientific endeavour. Let's please retain at least
some words because they sound nice and add linguistic interest.
Don't get me started on seeing Judy Dench described as an "actor".
2009/11/20 Denise Goodfellow <>
> Djagana
>
> People will still continue to use regional names, and I don't see why
not.
> For instance, Owl-faced Finch for Double-barred. Indeed, I think it
> important to keep such names, particularly the Indigenous ones.
Kunwinjku
> people have already stopped using a heap of terms for particular
animals,
> and so when I trained them for birdwatching tourism, I encouraged them
to
> just add the European terms to the names they already knew.
>
> There are already names common to each species - scientific names. And
> generally, not are they only descriptive but often poetic!
> Denise
>
>
>
>
> on 20/11/09 5:58 AM, Greg & Val Clancy at wrote:
>
> > Why not use 'Barri-enna'? Because it is the Sydney area name for it.
> There
> > are many other suitable indigenous names such as Djanna (help me
Denise
> > Goodfellow did I get it right?).
> >
> > A nice thought to use an indigenous name but it may be a Pandora's box
> not
> > worth opening.
> >
> >
> > Greg Clancy
> >
> >
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