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> From: Tone <>
> Date: 24 January 2017 at 20:15:29 AEDT
> To: Tony Russell <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] names
>
> Hi Tony
> I am neither an academic nor a re-namer, I don't have a trumpet to blow, and
> I certainly don't need to be noticed. I just like to be understood when I
> communicate. If I told my Brazilian friends that I saw a Jabiru in Australia
> they would have a giggle because Jabiru mycteria, the only species in the
> genus Jabiru, is endemic to South and Central America. Also, Black-necked
> Stork is not a new name, having been the official name for our bird for over
> a century.
>
> If you want to call a table a chair because that's what you learned when you
> were a kiddie, then so be it, but you will only be understood by your those
> who know you.
>
> Just sayin'
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony Gibson
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 23 Jan 2017, at 18:10, Tony Russell <> wrote:
>>
>> 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: [Birding-Aus] 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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