I have read several ornithological books lately which use lower case for common
names. Not surprising really, as many users of the English language are so
challenged by it, they would not know whether to insert, wear, or eat a gerund,
let alone when to capitalise a word. My theory is, that it is the publishers
trying to save on ink costs. Many a little makes a muckle.
Carl Clifford
On 10/04/2013, at 8:13, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> And still some publications refuse to use capital letters!
>
> On 9 April 2013 18:09, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>
>> May be and we can hope and good not to give up. I don't know either way. Of
>> course the issue would be, is he seeing Night Parrots or is he seeing night
>> parrots. As in is it that species or some other species flushed from the
>> ground at night that may be a parrot and thus given that name. Presumably
>> lots of birds roost on the ground and is he identifying them as separate?
>> Surely most birds roosting on the ground would flush in front of a
>> nocturnal
>> grader. It is worth ascertaining what other birds he sees in that
>> situation.
>> If he is calling all (or even a large proportion of) birds seen that way as
>> being Night Parrots, then they probably aren't.
>>
>> Not that different, I once heard a NP Ranger in a Victorian coastal park
>> asked whether there were Ground Parrots around. His answer delivered with
>> some amazement at how dumb the question was: yes ground parrots are all
>> over
>> the place, like these and pointed to Crimson Rosellas feeding on the ground
>> in the picnic area. Without the capital letters his answer was correct.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
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