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Report images in the Gallery with the wrong scientific name (1 Viewer)

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Not sure if it comes under this purview, but a lot of the Pallas's Gull pics have typos in the English name, either missing off the -s of Pallas, or using a backtick (`) instead of an apostrophe ('), or no apostrophe; all of these would result in a search failure for "Pallas's + Gull":

http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=243369 missing apostrophe
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=346752 missing s; backtick
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=362369 missing s; backtick
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=477582 missing s; backtick
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=489794 missing s; backtick
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=491220 backtick
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=491317 backtick
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=231797 missing s
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=434363 missing s
 
The gallery search is not something we have control over, Michael. The way it works is that it searches all the text in a picture to link.

This can throw up occasional oddities such as this.

It's not actually something we want to change, as it helps when there's been a genus change and maybe multiple common names; so we can search for (made up) looking for Spotty Antbird, aka Dusky Antbird we can use Antbird+guttata, instead of Dichrozona+guttata and Myrmorchilus+guttata when the taxonomy went berserk.

Have a look at Collared Kingfisher. Not only was there a genus change, but someone went and spelt the genus name incorrectly at some point. The search for Kingfisher+chloris means we can manage with a single search, instead of needing 3.

Bet all that is as clear as mud LOL.
 
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