Hyphens and "wrens"

[Merrilyn Serong <>]

This is an interesting site.
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/rules-compound.html
After reading it, I think I was more confused than before!
Cheers,
Merrilyn

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> I wondered the other day why Red Wattlebird doesn't have a hyphen???
> Its only the wattle that is red, not the bird. Should it be Red-wattled 
> bird, or Red-wattled Wattledbird. ; )
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> Peter Shute <> 
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> Thanks, Tony.  I knew someone would know. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Russell  
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:42 AM
> To: Peter Shute; 'Birding-aus (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Hyphens and "wrens"
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> No no no Peter, they ran out of hyphens. 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:05 AM
> To: Birding-aus (E-mail)
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Hyphens and "wrens"
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> I never realised there's a hyphen in "fairy-wren", and "emu-wren" too, 
> till I saw the responses to my recent posting in the never ending Jabiru 
> discussion.  They don't put a hyphen in grasswren, fernwren, heathwren or 
> scrubwren, and I just assumed none of them had one.
> Does anyone know the reasons for this?  Surely it's not just the result of 
> some random decisions.
> Peter Shute==========www.birding-aus.org
> birding-aus.blogspot.com
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