Richard Klim
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BirdLife: Saving Asia’s rarest bunting.
Surely it would help to increase awareness of this Endangered species if BirdLife abandoned the uninspiring name 'Rufous-backed Bunting' and instead adopted the almost universally-used 'Jankowski's Bunting' - as per IOC, H&M3, HBW, China Bird Report, OBC, Voous 1977, Beaman 1994, Byers et al 1995, King 1997, MacKinnon & Phillipps 2000, Brazil 2009...
In fact, I can't remember ever hearing a birder say 'Rufous-backed Bunting'. Even BirdLife's Martin Fowlie used 'Jankowski's' when requesting an image for use in this news item on Oriental Birding yesterday!
Surely it would help to increase awareness of this Endangered species if BirdLife abandoned the uninspiring name 'Rufous-backed Bunting' and instead adopted the almost universally-used 'Jankowski's Bunting' - as per IOC, H&M3, HBW, China Bird Report, OBC, Voous 1977, Beaman 1994, Byers et al 1995, King 1997, MacKinnon & Phillipps 2000, Brazil 2009...
In fact, I can't remember ever hearing a birder say 'Rufous-backed Bunting'. Even BirdLife's Martin Fowlie used 'Jankowski's' when requesting an image for use in this news item on Oriental Birding yesterday!
Does anyone have a decent image of Jankowski's Bunting that BirdLife International could use alongside a web news story? Full credit would be given. Best wishes Martin