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  1. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    In Germany, nature reserves are being monitored by students with the Obsidentify-App. As someone who (voluntarily) monitors these records, I do not notice much reflection on their sightings. I think the people who send them out should lose their title or job for being such lazy sods.
  2. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Really "low level" access to nature (such as identifying phone apps), more attention to nature in education, someone relatable on social media?
  3. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    You are missing the point completely. Māori names for endemics are OK with me – Pipipi is definitely more fun than "Brown Creeper". Changing Maui Parrotbill for a (made-up) Hawaiian name will not increase its changes of survival. Even if I agree that "Parrotbill" is a silly choice for a...
  4. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Yes, you're right. (The funny thing about the dictionary entry was how it describes the colour of the shearwater's feet).
  5. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Giving a bird that breeds more around Australia than around New Zealand a Māori name isn't great either. And this is not even considering the facts that the Māori have a history of avifaunal destruction and genocide (cue the Moriori). You must check how toanui is described in the on-line Māori...
  6. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Lump it with Pink-footed Shearwater and adopt the latter name: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.14291 "The genetic distances between A. creatopus and A. carneipes, and between P. mauretanicus and P. yelkouan, were within the distribution of genetic distances within the same...
  7. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    It turns out that even in our native language "vleeskleurig" is derived from skin colour, but I sincerely doubt that anyone knows. It fits quite well to the colour of ham, which is the type of meat most regularly encountered on a Dutchman's sandwiches (with which we like to offend Belgian...
  8. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Did it help the poor birds getting pseudo-indiginous names? Even Hawaiians won't understand them thanks to only 0.4% of Hawaiians left speaking the language...
  9. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I don't know who I find more abhorrent, the Incas or the Aztecs. But maybe I missed that your "end of problem" was ironic.
  10. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Sparrow is fine for the Passerellidae: mostly unremarkable brown seedeaters looking just like sparrows to the general public. The eponyms worsen the situation: look and listen closely and they are distinctive. An exception is Brewer's Sparrow, but I support keeping the eponym as it is...
  11. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I have a fair idea who this might be as I need Dull-coloured Grassquit. Point-tailed Palmcreeper is a much more painful omission on my list!
  12. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Then add (off the top of my head) Parkerthraustes, Willisornis, Zimmerius...
  13. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I got reasonably annoyed by the person who put forward that it would be such a shame if Parker's Spinetail was renamed. Many of the eponyms in South America come across as a circlejerk of a few North American ornithologists who've burdened us with more Parkers, Zimmers, Willis's etc. in both...
  14. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    An example from a different continent: Pink cockatoo - Wikipedia
  15. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Based on "Thick-billed Longspur", the ability to come up with evocative names is a point of discussion. But if you would have asked the public, it would now be Spurry McLongspur... It has been noted that the bill size actually works to find this species in mixed flocks (I cannot tell: I tried...
  16. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    These literal translations of the German names are not entirely inaccurate though. Marsh Tit does occur in swampy forests (even in the UK) and Willow Tit is still quite regular in willow carr (so yeah, basically in swampy forest as well). That said, Marsh Tit seems to be most common in older oak...
  17. Xenospiza

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I gave a few different names for these in my "Erasing History" thread: "Erasing history" in the WP I admire your attempts at the Golden-Spectacled Warbler assemblage which currently have utterly uninspired names (maybe "Ringed Warbler" is good enough?) Nuthatch Leaf Warbler is a particular...
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