On Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 3:03:34 PM UTC-6 wrote:
> Another thought on these birds named for men (3 women so -honored,
> all by their first names). I think of the Wilson's Warbler or the
> Swainson's Thrush as wild creatures. The " 's " implies possession -- and I
> don't think Wilson owned the warbler or Swainson the thrush. How about
> eliminating all the " 's " from those names?
>
Hello, Hugh et al.
For more (much more!) on this matter, see p. 38 ff. here ("Discontinue use
of the possessive (“apostrophe–s”) in patronymic bird names"):
http://checklist.americanornithology.org/assets/proposals/PDF/2019-A.pdf
Enjoy!
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
>
> Hugh Kingery
>
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