Hello Shirley,
Here's a question for your friends on the ENC:
Is their recommended name for the most common species of Koel in
Australia "Eastern Koel" or"Australian Koel"?
Regards,
Colin Scouler
On 04/11/2010, at 6:37 PM, Shirley Cook wrote:
Dear all,
Below is a message from this committee:
Following the discussion of the possible split of Melithreptus
lunatus, subscribers to Birding-Aus may be interested in the
following.
Birds Australia currently has an English Names Committee which is a
sub-committee of the Research and Conservation Committee which is
itself a sub-committee of the BA Council. The ENC is charged with
recommending English names for species new to the Oz list (BA's
list is on the website), whether through BARC or as a result of
taxonomic changes such as splits. The committee membership is at
present Simon Bennett, John Blyth, Walter Boles, Geoffrey Dabb,
Mike Carter, Les Christidis, Tony Palliser, Harry Recher, Peter
Menkhorst and Andrew Ley.
It is specifically not the role of the ENC to make determinations
on the status of suggested taxonomic splits such as that proposed
for the White-naped Honeyeater so we have recommended to RACC that
a Taxonomic Advisory Committee be (re)constituted to do that. The
result of that recommendation is outstanding. Matters that will be
taken into consideration by the committee when looking at possible
names include such things as the opinion of the proposer of a
split, overseas usage, established or past usage in Australia,
consistency with existing names, and so on. Decisions of the
committee will take the form of recommendations to RACC.
Andrew Ley, chairman, ENC
Regards
Shirley
Shirley Cook
Secretary/Treasurer
Birds Australia - Northern NSW Group
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