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    Parrots

    Scientific names act or are intended to act as globally unique identifiers. Therefore, there are rules about them to facilitate global scientific communication. Common names don't perform the same function---the scope over which they operate is smaller and they don't have to be exclusive. If...
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    Parrots

    No. We already have scientific names. We've messed them up right enough---let's not do the same with "common" names. We can use the scientific names where precision is required and we don't think the English name is unambiguous
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    Parrots

    So why change it? (If it is irrelevant)
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