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"correct" names for birds

To: Shirley Cook <>
Subject: "correct" names for birds
From: Dave Torr <>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:02:59 +1100
Unfortunately of course some international lists use different names - which
may be reasonable for birds with a wide distribution and different names in
different countries but is not for endemics!

On 13 December 2010 19:04, Shirley Cook <> wrote:

> Dear all,  this comes from Andrew Ley:
>
> The "rules" for the formation of the recommended English names for Oz
> species are clearly laid out in the Supplement to Emu volume 77 of 1977 but
> published in 1978 "Recommended English Names for Australian Birds"; they are
> further discussed in Christidis and Boles 1994 and 2008.  The subject was
> debated at length in Wingspan in the lead up to the publication of the first
> Christidis & Boles.  The C&B volumes are followed for taxonomy and
> nomenclature by most Oz bird journals and newsletters.  For some reason the
> authors of some field guides have seen fit to deviate from these standards
> in some cases.
>
> Shirley Cook
>
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