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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Adcock" data-source="post: 3902115" data-attributes="member: 31710"><p>My summary after a very quick 'skim read', please feel free to correct me.</p><p></p><p>We currently have HBW with the newly split Russet-backed Thrush <em>Catharus ustulatus</em>, which is now already being proposed for a name change in this article as Pacific Nightingale-Thrush.</p><p></p><p>Boreal Nightingale-Thrush is proposed as the new name for <em>C. swainsoni </em>, Swainson's Thrush, have I got this about right?</p><p></p><p>The author identifies potential confusions arising from the current nomenclature. IMHO, as someone who travels as much as possible to see birds, this kind of thing is what causes the confusion! I am aware of the current trend which frowns upon naming birds after a person but why couldn't we just have Eastern and Western Swainson's Thrush?</p><p></p><p>Do both occur in Costa Rica, descriptions of the range of each species suggest that they do so like many people, I will now have to try and resolve the ID of birds I saw there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Adcock, post: 3902115, member: 31710"] My summary after a very quick 'skim read', please feel free to correct me. We currently have HBW with the newly split Russet-backed Thrush [I]Catharus ustulatus[/I], which is now already being proposed for a name change in this article as Pacific Nightingale-Thrush. Boreal Nightingale-Thrush is proposed as the new name for [I]C. swainsoni [/I], Swainson's Thrush, have I got this about right? The author identifies potential confusions arising from the current nomenclature. IMHO, as someone who travels as much as possible to see birds, this kind of thing is what causes the confusion! I am aware of the current trend which frowns upon naming birds after a person but why couldn't we just have Eastern and Western Swainson's Thrush? Do both occur in Costa Rica, descriptions of the range of each species suggest that they do so like many people, I will now have to try and resolve the ID of birds I saw there? [/QUOTE]
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