What bird name would like to change?

[lonestranger]

How about removing the word Northern from the name of birds that don't have a Southern counterpart, an idea that I believe was previously suggested somewhere else on the forum. When I go to All About Birds and type Northern into their search engine I get a list of MANY Northern birds. When I type Southern into the same search engine I get ZERO results. Why the heavy loading of Northern birds when there's no Southern birds to balance it out. Rhetorical question of course, unless you happen to know the answer. 

[lonestranger]

1 hour ago, lonestranger said:

How about removing the word Northern from the name of birds that don't have a Southern counterpart, an idea that I believe was previously suggested somewhere else on the forum. When I go to All About Birds and type Northern into their search engine I get a list of MANY Northern birds. When I type Southern into the same search engine I get ZERO results. Why the heavy loading of Northern birds when there's no Southern birds to balance it out. Rhetorical question of course, unless you happen to know the answer. 

I guess I should have looked further than AAB for southern birds. Wikipedia shows MANY Southern named birds. I didn't see any crossovers though, no Northern and Southern birds seem to share a common name so why bother? Eastern and Western birds share common names and are usually associated with different ranges, but that doesn't seem to apply to Northern and Southern birds. 🤷‍♂️

[Charlie Spencer]

3 hours ago, lonestranger said:

When I go to All About Birds

AAB is strictly North America.  Try Birds of the World or even (*gasp*) Google.

[Avery]

On 6/20/2022 at 12:53 AM, Colton V said:

if we’re worried about what it was called originally, we should be calling it Wisakedjak!

 

Partially the reason why I love calling them by their nickname of Whisky Jack!