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  1. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    Already happening. Have a look at Want to name a new frog? from the NY Times 5 years ago.
  2. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    That's not what I've heard about scientists. It's more like, scientific disputes end when one of the participants dies.
  3. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    Except that it simply says "The South American Classification Committee was founded in 1998" whereas it formerly said "The South American Classification Committee, founded in 1998, is an official committee of the American Ornithological Society". I'd say it's an extremely difficult task to take...
  4. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    The ICZN has a set of rules to manage the scientific names of animals (which includes birds). But these rules are to be applied to names which were produced using 19th century technology, so it isn't possible to apply them precisely and unambiguously. Did so-and-so use "caeruleus" or "coeruleus"...
  5. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    Say's Phoebe. Okay, there's only three Phoebes in Sayornis: Black, Eastern, and Say's. Since Say's is found in Western North America, overlapping with Eastern Phoebe only in the usual areas where "Eastern" and "Western" species overlap in North America, renaming it to "Western Phoebe" would be a...
  6. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    We were discussing suitable new names for Anna's Hummingbird at the kitchen table this morning. Didn't come up with much, but then inventing vernacular names for hummingbirds is a really difficult task.
  7. Paul Clapham

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    It's common around where I live to see "Stellar Jay" in writing, so that wouldn't be a big step.
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