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!

[Zoroark]

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, 2022 by Zoroark

[Quiscalus quiscula]

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.

[DLecy]

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.

[Trevor L.]

I wish I'd been more active for this conversation.

 

[Kevin]

Personly I'd like to see Carolina Chickadee and Carolina Wren renamed.

[Charlie Spencer]

1 hour ago, Trevor L. said:

I wish I'd been more active for this conversation.

 

What's stopping you?  The thread isn't locked.

[Charlie Spencer]

8 minutes ago, Kevin said:

Personly I'd like to see Carolina Chickadee and Carolina Wren renamed.

Why, and to what?

[Kevin]

6 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said:

Why, and to what?

Because they are such wide spread birds, and the name lends you to think that they only live in the Carolinas. Maybe Forest Wren?

[Birds are cool]

2 hours ago, Kevin said:

Because they are such wide spread birds, and the name lends you to think that they only live in the Carolinas. Maybe Forest Wren?

I don't disagree with you, but any good birder knows that Carolina Wrens and Chickadees don't just live in the Carolinas.

[Snake Fingers]

Prepare to have your mind blown, instead of Wilson’s Snipe…

 

Snickerdoodle Snipe!!!!!

[Aidan B]

I like trying to figure out new names for birds, you can think of some really cool sounding names sometimes. 

Lewis's Woodpecker --- Silver-naped Woodpecker, Rose-bellied Woodpecker

Barrow's Goldeneye --- Moon-faced Goldeneye

Virginia's Warbler --- Lemon-vented Warbler

[DLecy]

2 minutes ago, Aidan B said:

I like trying to figure out new names for birds, you can think of some really cool sounding names sometimes. 

Lewis's Woodpecker --- Silver-naped Woodpecker, Rose-bellied Woodpecker

Barrow's Goldeneye --- Moon-faced Goldeneye

Virginia's Warbler --- Lemon-vented Warbler

I like all of these!

[IKLland]

16 minutes ago, DLecy said:

I like all of these!

Me too!

[IKLland]

Bell’s Vireo- - - Long-tailed Vireo

[IKLland]

Baird’s Sandpiper—Buff-colored Sandpiper

[Snake Fingers]

1 hour ago, Aidan B said:

I like trying to figure out new names for birds, you can think of some really cool sounding names sometimes. 

Lewis's Woodpecker --- Silver-naped Woodpecker, Rose-bellied Woodpecker

Barrow's Goldeneye --- Moon-faced Goldeneye

Virginia's Warbler --- Lemon-vented Warbler

Me three!

[Birds are cool]

1 hour ago, IKLland said:

Me too!

Me 4!

[Birds are cool]

What about Hutton's vireo inyo Kinglet Vireo?

[Avery]

I'd love to rename all the warblers that don't breed and are rare, or are migrants,  in the state's they are named for:

Connecticut, Nashville, Tennessee (they are quite numerous in fall), Cape May, etc.

Also, LeConte's Sparrow - Pink-naped Sparrow

Edited December 27, 2022 by Avery

[Charlie Spencer]

18 hours ago, Kevin said:

Because they are such wide spread birds, and the name lends you to think that they only live in the Carolinas.

Down that path lies madness.  Tennessee, Nashville, and Palm Warblers, and Orchard Orioles come immediately to mind.

Edited December 27, 2022 by Charlie Spencer

[Kevin]

3 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said:

Down that path lies madness. 

I have the exact same thought about renaming all the birds named after people, but that doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.