Eurasian Wren - can we do better? (1 Viewer)

colonelboris · Dec 24, 2012

Mysticete said:
Putting stuff up for vote is an interesting idea, but it would probably absorb most of the time checklist committee have in just organizing those votes. We wouldn't have time to deal with taxonomic changes/splits/lumps, which arguably are more important in the long term for committee.

I'll agree with that!

fugl · Dec 24, 2012

Mysticete said:
We wouldn't have time to deal with taxonomic changes/splits/lumps, which arguably are more important in the long term for committee.

Not "arguably" but indisputably, and in all terms--long, medium and short.

dantheman · Dec 24, 2012

Little Brown Jenny Wren?

Not only cute and twee, but good for newbies too - it really is an LBJ ... descriptively correct and pleasing to everyone?

MJB · Dec 25, 2012

dantheman said:
Little Brown Jenny Wren? Not only cute and twee, but good for newbies too - it really is an LBJ ... descriptively correct and pleasing to everyone?

In British pre-decimal coinage, the Wren was on the back of the farthing (4 farthings to the penny, 12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings to the £), so you had 960 Wrens to the pound (or 1008 to the guinea).

We could rename UK birds as Farthing Wren...8-P
MJB

Richard Klim · Dec 25, 2012

MJB said:
We could rename UK birds as Farthing Wren...8-P

...taking care to avoid unfortunate typos.

MJB · Dec 25, 2012

Richard Klim said:
...taking care to avoid unfortunate typos.

...and associated sonograms.o

MJB

colonelboris · Dec 25, 2012

MJB said:
...and associated sonograms.o
MJB

Resulting in the split Troglodytes flatulenta?

birdboybowley · Dec 25, 2012

colonelboris said:
Resulting in the split Troglodytes flatulenta?

Some busy-body will soon change it to Troglodytes flatulentus anyway.....

chowchilla · Dec 27, 2012

Kirk Roth said:
By this logic, the wren should have a Chinese name, as it was certainly named there first. Then us "latecomers" can just modify that name. The teal should probably have an Egyptian name - but then does the Eurasian or Cape Teal get the modifier?

The Chinese already have a perfectly sensible name for the Wren, namely: 鷦

It's pronounced 'jiāo'. Almost as easy to pronounce as Wren (so long as you get the tone right) and of course when written would have to be done so in the correct stroke order.

On the other hand maybe we should stick to 'Wren'.

John Cantelo · Dec 27, 2012

Richard Klim said:
...taking care to avoid unfortunate typos.

Reminds me of the child who once wrote an essay for me on Elizabethan costume ..... and consistently misspelled farthingale so developing a whole new theory of how Elizabethan skirts kept their shape!

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