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Showing posts with label avian nomenclature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avian nomenclature. Show all posts
14 August 2013

Squabbles Over Names of the Ortolan and Reed Bird

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Concerning the "Ortolan" To the Editor of The Evening Star: It seems odd that in a city containing a national museum and many good...
12 August 2013

Newspaper Syntactical and Ornithological Display

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Editor Star — I have observed of late in sundry journals in their reference to the autumnal return of the bobolinks such an expression as t...
10 November 2010

Smithsonian Scientist Investigates Original Nomenclature of a Warbler

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In an investigation worthy of a detective novel, Storrs L. Olson has thoroughly considered the origin of the historic name attributed to the...
06 September 2009

Update of World Bird Names Released

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A new version of the list of names for world birds has been released and continues to present prominant advances in understanding the taxono...
26 March 2009

Gunners' Name Gamebirds on the Historic North Atlantic Coast

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A couple of lists giving common names of birds used during the mid-1800s along the north Atlantic coast, convey particularly interesting and...
22 March 2009

Avian Nomenclature for North America Needs Certainty and Stability

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An incessant and certainly endless change that causes constant and ongoing consternation to denote bird occurrence records for North America...
06 March 2009

Developing an International Standard for English Bird Names

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Having a standard set of names for birds has been constantly changing ever since Carl Linnaeus of Sweden placed animals into groups in hi...