I think these would be "re-namers" are just blowing their own trumpets to gain
a little notice. Forget it folks, keep using the names we all grew up with, we
don't NEED any new names thank you academia.
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
michael hunter
Sent: 23 January 2017 16:57
To:
Subject: names
Once again a few academics, mostly not Australian, if not Un-Australian, are
foisting otherworldly names onto us Aussie birders.
Common names , NOT ENGLISH names, for Australian birds are names commonly
used by about 99% of Australian birdwatchers for our birds. It is appalling
that colourless English names like Black-necked Stork have been inflicted on us
by a few pseudo-academics who are presumably incapable of memorising Scientific
names. Jabiru may be the common name of a South American Stork, but changing
the official “common” name for any birdwatcher witless enough to confuse the
two in the field was an amazing arrogance. One justification was that people
reading birdguides will be confused in not justified.
These people are meddling with our Australian common names, which are , or
were, spontaneous non-scientific vernacular.
Among many examples, “Jabiru” and “Torres Straits Pigeon” had romantic (in
the broad sense folks) connotations lost in the bland generics we are told to
use instead. As a youth my first sighting of the legendary Jabiru was very
exciting, and stimulated a life-long interest in Birding. Seeing a
Black-necked Stork would not have.
“Willy Fantail” They must be joking.
Resist.
Michael
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