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- Rarities and Vagrants🔍
- Bird Names for the 21st Century🔍
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Misleading Bird Names – Maine Birds
Misleading Bird Names – Maine Birds
The Evening Grosbeak has one of the most curious and misleading common names. This large, colorful finch is active throughout the day and goes ...
Problematic Bird Names - Big Year Birding
... confusing the two birds.” And as a matter of fact, there had been a ... While I am on the name rant: yesterday I picked up Maine Big Year Bird # ...
This birding controversy is back in the limelight - Bangor Daily News
Townsend's warbler is one of the bird species bearing a person's name. The birding community is back to discussing whether to rename it and multiple others.
More on the Etymology of Bird Names
Maine Birds. A resource for Maine birds and birding. About · More on the Etymology of Bird Names. May 28, 2020 By Herb Wilson in Migration, Taxonomy.
The Ghost of Alexander Wilson Haunts Our Bird Names
He named the bird for Cape May, New Jersey, where his collaborator, George Ord, had collected a male of the species in 1809. It is claimed that ...
Rarities and Vagrants - Maine Birding Field Notes
In June, I raced down with Jess Costa between tours to see the Loggerhead Shrike at the Kennebunk Plains, which was my 399th species in Maine ( ...
Bird Names for the 21st Century - American Birding Association
Consider the case of the Magnificent Hummingbird. Before 2017, it was considered a single species with the scientific name Eugenes fulgens. When ...
Just FYI that there is some bad birding behavior going on at the blue ...
Not sure how rare it is to see a Summer Tanager in Maine now but I had to add the bird to my eBird list today as a rare bird. He came to my ...
10 Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)
In fact many of the diminutive bird species (at least the Eurasian ones) that feature tit prominently in the common names used to be referred to as some form or ...
Ornithological society to rename dozens of birds - News Center Maine
Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson's warbler and Wilson's snipe, both named after the 19th century naturalist ...
New Names for Maine Birds! - YouTube
A lively and fun webinar delivered by Maine Audubon's Nick Lund and Doug Hitchcox to discuss new names for some eponymous birds found in ...
Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names - NPR
Those three birds are among a half-dozen that will get renamed first under a plan by the American Ornithological Society to do away with common ...
r/birding on Reddit: What are everyone's thoughts on this decision ...
They named birds who's names are common in english... Is it really ... I'm equally astonished by the false equivalence between "bird names ...
By continuing to use eponymous common bird names, we continue to reference and honor our distressful colonial heritage and the racism that was a direct ...
Changes to Common Bird Names - Maine Audubon
Changing all eponyms (only ~5% of birds in the US and Canada; 14 regularly occurring in Maine) to names that actually describe the bird, or some ...
10 great birds with bad names - BirdWatching
Bad bird names around the world · 1. Smew · 2. Tinkling Cisticola · 3. Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler · 4. Tropical Boubou · 5. Kentish Plover.
Avoiding the Most Common Bird Name Mistakes - LycoBirds
Just like Canada Warbler and Canada Jay, the species name is Canada Goose. Many other species named in honor of places follow a similar ...
The Maine Bird Records Committee considers the following 459 species to be recorded with convincing evidence within the state of Maine. This list includes.
Why Are Rare Birds Coming to Maine?
The Great Black Hawk is hardly the first rare bird to visit Maine in recent memory. In 2017 alone, Maine birders found a Fieldfare (native to ...
Lark Sparrow in Madawaska reported to MAINE Birds | Facebook
Not sure how rare it is to see a Summer Tanager in Maine now but I had to add the bird to my eBird list today as a rare bird. He came to my ...