Don’t forget the ringneck duck! How many times have we called it ring billed duck anyway?
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:10 PM, Susan Rosine <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And yet the Scrub Jay is now two Jays; one named for a state, the other named > after naturalist Samuel Washington Woodhouse. > They really need to address issues such as the Orange-crowned Warbler. Now > that's a stupid name! > And while I'm on my "mini-rant", if Chickadees are named for their vocals, > how about renaming Killdeer. It doesn't sound like kill deer to me. And > surely we can rename Virginia Rail something like "Kiddick"! > > Susan Rosine > Brighton > >> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:11 AM Timothy Barksdale >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Gentle Birders, >> Along this line of thinking is the former McCown's Longspur.... now saddled >> with an abomination of a name. When I moved to Montana over 20 years ago, I >> found colonies of this species nesting on the tops of several buttes near my >> home. The extreme shortgrass was like an extensive putting green, of very >> high diversity. The occasional Horned Lark or Long-billed Curlew would >> appear in these locations but other wise, the aforementioned Longspur >> dominated. >> >> The courtship flight is so utterly adorable- calling while fluttering to the >> earth, tail spread so wide it is easily spotted at a distance. The huge >> white panels with the narrow, dark and inverted T is so diagnostic and >> easily used to identify this species. >> >> I propose that the assigned genus remain the same so the nerd-ornitholigists >> obsessed with following archaic protocols have their "win". But along with >> many other things, our past time continues to a lot of stupid things which >> hurt out growth and thwart more widespread adoption. Not naming birds better >> is one stupidity which follows this trend. >> >> Bay-winged, Crescent-chested, or the White tailed- Grey, or even Fluttering >> Longspur... anything is better than Thick-billed. Sorry nomenclature >> committee that is just a boneheaded name. >> >> Very sincerely, >> >> Timothy Barksdale >> Choteau, MT >>> On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:56:31 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: >>> I can’t think of anything better than listing a Kwish-Kwishee Jay on my >>> eBirds tally. >>> Van Rudd >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>>> On Apr 18, 2021, at 15:43, Emil Yappert <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>> +1 >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>>>> On Apr 16, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Nathan Pieplow <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Why should Steller get a jay named after him when he spent only a few >>>>> hours with the species and learned virtually nothing about it? He just >>>>> happened to be the first European person to shoot one. >>>>> >>>>> "The Makahs tell a story about how the bird we know as the Steller's Jay >>>>> - the bird the Makahs call Kwish-kwishee - got its crest. The mink, >>>>> Kwahtie, tried to shoot his mother, the jay, with an arrow but missed. >>>>> Her crest is ruffled to this day." >>>>> >>>>> https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/how-stellers-jay-got-its-crest >>>>> >>>>> Doesn't the name "Kwish-kwishee" ring with more romance than "Steller's >>>>> Jay"? >>>>> >>>>> Nathan Pieplow >>>>> Boulder >>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 4:09 PM Ira Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Bob >>>>>> Maybe it will turn out that Steller was a Confederate general and they >>>>>> will change the name to Mountain Jay >>>>>> Ira Sanders >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 12:30 PM Robert Righter <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Peter the Great,Tsar of all of Russia, invited Georg W. Steller, a >>>>>>> German scientist to come to Russia and help explore and catalogue it’s >>>>>>> natural history. In 1741 Steller joined the Vitus Bering Expedition in >>>>>>> sailing east to discover what was out there. After several weeks they >>>>>>> bumped into new land now known as Alaska. Steller discovered a jay, now >>>>>>> known as Steller’s Jay. The expedition sailed west exploring the >>>>>>> Aleutians. Out of many of Steller’s new discoveries was a new eagle, >>>>>>> now known as Steller’s Sea Eagle. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Doesn’t the eponymic name Steller’s Jay evoke more romance, interest, >>>>>>> and wonder than if it was just called, for convenience, say “Mountain” >>>>>>> Jay? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Bob Righter >>>>>>> Denver, CO > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en > * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. 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