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> From: Tone < tone@lis.net.au>
> Date: 24 January 2017 at 20:15:29 AEDT
> To: Tony Russell < pratincole08@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] names
>
> Hi Tony
> I am neither an academic nor a re-namer, I don’t have a trumpet to blow, and I certainly don’t need to be noticed. I just like to be understood when I communicate. If I told my Brazilian friends that I saw a Jabiru in Australia they would have a giggle because Jabiru mycteria, the only species in the genus Jabiru, is endemic to South and Central America. Also, Black-necked Stork is not a new name, having been the official name for our bird for over a century.
>
> If you want to call a table a chair because that’s what you learned when you were a kiddie, then so be it, but you will only be understood by your those who know you.
>
> Just sayin’
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony Gibson
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 23 Jan 2017, at 18:10, Tony Russell < pratincole08@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think these would be “re-namers” are just blowing their own trumpets to gain a little notice. Forget it folks, keep using the names we all grew up with, we don’t NEED any new names thank you academia.
>>
>> —–Original Message—–
>> From: Birding-Aus [>
>> Common names , NOT ENGLISH names, for Australian birds are names commonly used by about 99% of Australian birdwatchers for our birds. It is appalling that colourless English names like Black-necked Stork have been inflicted on us by a few pseudo-academics who are presumably incapable of memorising Scientific names. Jabiru may be the common name of a South American Stork, but changing the official “common” name for any birdwatcher witless enough to confuse the two in the field was an amazing arrogance. One justification was that people reading birdguides will be confused in not justified.
>>
>> These people are meddling with our Australian common names, which are , or were, spontaneous non-scientific vernacular.
>> Among many examples, “Jabiru” and “Torres Straits Pigeon” had romantic (in the broad sense folks) connotations lost in the bland generics we are told to use instead. As a youth my first sighting of the legendary Jabiru was very exciting, and stimulated a life-long interest in Birding. Seeing a Black-necked Stork would not have.
>>
>> “Willy Fantail” They must be joking.
>>
>> Resist.
>>
>> Michael
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