Wait, don’t go! This is not a post about eponymous bird names. I’ve done that before, and I’ll surely do it again, but not today. All the recent discussion about birds named after people has been great and it looks like, with some specifics still to be hashed out, we are roughly headed in the…Continue readingA Definitive List of Bird Names that Also Suck
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A very long time ago – like nine months – I made some opinions about The State of Birding, and the Weirdos Who Do It. Those opinions included a few brief thoughts on birding apps, and at the time I thought I would later expand on those thoughts in a post of their own. Then…Continue readingThe Problem of Birding Apps: Solved
A few days ago I wrote some things about the recent AOS decision to change bird names. It was a struggle, because the situation is big and complex and difficult to distill down to a few digestible paragraphs. I tried my best, but I never know when to stop talking, so here are five additional…Continue readingFive More Random Thoughts About the AOS Changing Bird Names
As usual it’s been a minute since I’ve made internet words, but you had to know that if anything was going to bring me out of my hiatus it would be last Wednesday’s shock announcement by the American Ornithological Society that they’re poised to change a whole bunch of bird names. My three favourite things…Continue readingBird Names Are Changing. Here’s Why You Should Care (and Why You Shouldn’t).