lonestranger Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 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. ?♂️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 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! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 (edited) I got an e-mail from the Audubon Society about this article they just published. I definitely suggest giving it a read, as it discusses honorific names in depth. https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2022/whats-bird-name Edited August 31 by Zoroark 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 18 hours ago, Zoroark said: I got an e-mail from the Audubon Society about this article they just published. I definitely suggest giving it a read, as it discusses honorific names in depth. https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2022/whats-bird-name I get the magazine, so read the article before. Great article. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLecy Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 On 8/31/2022 at 4:27 PM, Zoroark said: I got an e-mail from the Audubon Society about this article they just published. I definitely suggest giving it a read, as it discusses honorific names in depth. https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2022/whats-bird-name On 9/1/2022 at 10:39 AM, Quiscalus quiscula said: I get the magazine, so read the article before. Great article. Totally agree with the points made in the article. Loved the article, thanks for sharing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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