Some awkward German names (1 Viewer)

colonelboris

Right way up again

• Aug 26, 2008

• #1

Could any German-speaking birders help out with a small problem regarding two Shearwaters? What's the correct name for Cory's Shearwater (Puffinus diomedea) and for the Little / Macaronesian Shearwater split (P. assimilis and baroli).
I get two names for Cory's: Barthel and Liebig give Sepiastrumtaucher [1-2], while most other sources give Schwarzschnabel-Sturmtaucher.
Bathel and Liebig also accept the split for the Little / Macaronesian Shearwater, but almost everyone calls both species Kleiner Sturmtaucher without any modifiers.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers,

Tony


[1] Barthel and Liebig, Limicola, 2005, vol 19, p89-111.
[2] Bathel and Dougalis, Was Fliegt denn da?, Kosmos, 2006.

 

Richard Klim

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• Aug 26, 2008

• #2

All have unique German names in Club300 Deutschland's WP checklist.

Ref. http://www.club300.de/ (select: Publications, Birdlist WP)

Richard

 

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colonelboris

Right way up again

• Aug 26, 2008

• #3

I've had a look before at this one, but they also have some things that aren't consistent with other sources. The Limicola paper was commissioned by the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft as their official list, but has quite a few differences between that and the Club300 site. Not entirely sure where the Club300 site gets the names from, though.
I'd like to stick with the DO-G list as the main source, but of course it doesn't cover a chunk of WP species, and that's often where the variation in names comes in.

 

Daniel Philippe

Well-known member

• Aug 26, 2008

• #4

Both are here:

http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/checklist.jsp?lang=FR&region=gi&list=ioc&synlang=DE

 

colonelboris

Right way up again

• Aug 26, 2008

• #5

Hmm. Now we've got three names for it...
Another awkward one is Green-winged Teal. Carolinakrickente or Amerikanische Krickente...? The official list says the first, everyone else says the second. And I thought the Germans loved order.

 

Richard Klim

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• Aug 26, 2008

• #6

I'm sure that similar disagreements over bird names occur in most languages. But although I admit to having zero knowledge of the German birding scene, I suspect that an organisation like Club300.de probably provides a fairly good reflection of the common names currently used by active German (but perhaps not Austrian/Swiss?) field birders in the Western Palearctic (c.f. English names used by Birding World, RBA etc. in Britain).

Richard

 

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