I am astounded that so many seemingly intelligent people are so
obsessed with complaining about bird names and their desires to change
them.
As one who regularly teaches classes in bird identification to those
with very little knowledge of birds I find no resistance to the
current names but at the same time I make it clear that any one can
call any bird what ever they like. If you like to call a Magpie Lark
Peewe that fine. If you want to cal it George, that's also fine but if
you want me to know what you're talking about you need to call it
something I understand and that's what the common names achieve.
Instead of going on about names I get out and enjoy the birds.
Peter
On 30/11/2009, at 10:01 PM, wrote:
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:30:26 +1100
From: "Michael Hunter" <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] "Jabiru"
To: "Tony Russell" <>
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