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Scientific or Latin names (1 Viewer)

John In Ireland

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Ireland
I am starting to get slightly confused over Scientific and or Latin names. For instance an Australian Osprey is recorded as Pandion cristatus. Whereas the Eurasian Osprey is recorded as Pandion haliaetus. Are these the same bird? I have found similar confusion with the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the Pied one in Australia.
 
Firstly John, the names are correctly referred to as scientific as they are actually an amalgum of Latin and Greek.

The Osprey in Australia is indeed another species, split a couple of years ago. The scientific name is a constant which bridges in some cases, numerous common names, if the scientific name is different, it's a different bird unless, it's had it's genus changed that is, moved to another family in which case the first part of the name will be altered to reflect this.



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