I've never heard anybody shout "Common Crossbill" (or Red Crossbill) at my vizmig spot, just as I've never heard anybody shout out "Common Crane". Perhaps there are parts of Scotland where other crossbills are sufficiently regular to warrant general use of the modifier, and perhaps in future we will be yelling "N11 flying north!"
How long is the transition expected to take?
Do you know if there are an update of the multilingual file ?
Perhaps that is your experience, but in my experience the names used in the guides are the names used by birders. Yes, sometimes birds have nicknames: TVs for Turkey Vultures, Modos for Mourning Doves, butterbuts for Yellow-rumped warblers. And birders will use short-hand in regions where there is only one expected bird of that type (e.g., in Wisconsin when talking to other birders, there is no need to clarify what type of robin or cardinal you are seeing).
Regarding the Gallinule example, surely it falls on individuals to keep up with the taxonomy, especially if submitting records? Reports of Common Moorhen, would surely be from people not aware of the split, same with the Wrens?
I’m afraid you’re reading the ”List after”-column!
ahh...I just always assumed it was used to indicate what it was split from! I guess that makes sense that usually it would come AFTER the species it was split from usually
Ebird is open to all and many people use it. There are many birders who don't follow taxonomy closely who use it. In this case they will often try to enter in records under old names, even it that old name is only indicated as rare. It's even worse when both forms are rare vagrants to an area. For instance, Pacific Wren and Winter wrens are both rare birds that show up in southern California, and this is a known headache for rare bird committees and ebird reviewers for this area.
I agree. We should also consider that in all likelihood, most birders probably don't use eBird (or ornitho, or any other platform like that). So making up new English names just for the sake of accommodating a platform and/or its users seems a bit over the top IMO.
I keep saying that I have directly heard from ebird people that this is a problem, and people just insist that it isn't. You know someone does have to go in an manually deal with those records, right?
I know we are going off topic here, but I don't understand how this is happening on ebird to any significant extent, so long as the regional reviewers have set-up their species filters correctly. I just tried to input a record of "Common Moorhen" at a random wetland in NY, and even if I expand the list options to include rare species, it doesn't appear. I have to manually input it as an additional species, and when I do that I get a message stating that it is a rare species for the location and to add supporting comment, and documentary evidence.
