Avian misnomers (8 Viewers)

[alanc]

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[Microtus]

Also, birds with extraneous words:

Black-capped Donacobius: In contrast to all the other Donacobius?
Rosy Thrush-tanager: In contrast to all the other Thrush-tanagers?

Exactly. Both those names bother me.

 

[Microtus]

Acadian Flycatcher. It's an extremely rare bird in Nova Scotia, which hasn't been known as Acadia since the 1700s.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. In fact, all the empids have yellow bellies. The distinguishing yellow area on the Yellow-bellied Fly is actually the throat.

 

[Nightjar61]

Inca Dove. Its range is from northern Central America to the southwestern USA. The Incas, of course, were in the Andes of South America.

A proposal to change the name to Aztec Dove was rejected by the AOS a few years ago. Much of the bird’s range is within what was once the Aztec empire.

Dave

 

[Mysticete]

Inca Dove. Its range is from northern Central America to the southwestern USA. The Incas, of course, were in the Andes of South America.

A proposal to change the name to Aztec Dove was rejected by the AOS a few years ago. Much of the bird’s range is within what was once the Aztec empire.

Dave

I have a feeling this is going to be revisited as part of the reassessment of common bird names