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  1. jurek

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

    There are proverbs like who sows a wind, reaps a whirlwind. They should have foreseen that if they start turning political, then somebody else might also use the opportunity to cheaply score some popularity points. So, are they going to politicize bird watching further, or accept that the idea...
  2. jurek

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

    I am not following this thread closely, but I understand after the original fanfare there is still no sign that minorities themselves are especially interested, or that any majority of birders outside the original petition want the change?
  3. jurek

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

    The original petition of 2500(?) signatures was also tiny compared to the number of birders potentially affected. Were the signatories actually even birders? And petitions by definition exclude anybody opposite or neutral. American films, media personalities and companies which become...
  4. jurek

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

    Naturalists from Poland would rightly object why Americans are lobbying to remove patronyms from Taczanowski's Tinamou, Taczanowski's Ground Tyrant, Jelski's Chat Tyrant and Jelski's Black Tyrant. These birds are named for Polish ornithologists Wladyslaw Taczanowski and Konstanty Jelski...
  5. jurek

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

    That is why I pointed to look in the internet which names are actually used between birders. Artificially constructed language does not work.
  6. jurek

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

    That is another good idea! I genuinely look forward to Americans trying to adopt Polish names. Bewick's Wren, for example, is strzyżyk myszaty.
  7. jurek

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

    Also bizarre, Merlin is itself an eponym from an Anglo-Saxon male name. :D Maybe they could start getting rid of eponyms from themselves?
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