It appears that I use Eremaea in way that no one else does. Of course I do! But let me explain.
If I want to check recent sightings (the only purpose for which I use Eremaea) I simply go to one of the “Birdline” pages (usually “Birdline Central & Southern Queensland” http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=7) and view the reports.
Perhaps someone can tell me where on that page it tells me what taxonomy is being used and where the facility is to change to “Australia (English)” for the common name spelling.
To search for “Grey Teal” I went to the Eremaea Birds Home page (http://www.eremaea.com/) and selected “Species Records” (http://www.eremaea.com/SpeciesRecordsSelection.aspx). I made the naive mistake of assuming that the search facility would search the whole data base and simply entered “Grey Teal”. However I received the response “Species name not found. Please try again.” As trying again would simply produce the same result I didn’t bother. I also didn’t consider the “blatantly obvious” in that the common name of the Australian bird “Grey Teal” would be changed to “Gray Teal”.
The other ‘mistake’ I made and will continue to make for the time being at least is that I use the Birdlife Australia ‘official’ taxonomy of C&B. I will continue to use that taxonomy until Birdlife Australia changes to another taxonomy. But that’s just me. I don’t demand or even expect anyone else to do as I do.
Bob Inglis Sandstone Point Qld
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Bob.
I too use Eremaea in the way that you do, and I think it is a fantastic resource.
Firstly, I think that the birdline pages just accept whatever common name you type in, so the taxonomy used is purely up to the reporter. Usually, people use C & B names but someone recently used “Australian Kite” (Clements) and it raised a few eyebrows.
Secondly, if you are doing a search on “Species Records” you just have to change the taxonomy in the “Common Names” box before you type in the species. It defaults to Clements, so if you type in “Grey Teal” you get nothing.
Steve Murray
Oops! That should have been addressed “Bob”, of course.
John Tongue
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Bill, If you go to the Birdline Central and Southern Queensland page of Eremea Birds and click on Species Archive, the page that comes up give you the option of choosing which version of common names you want to use.
Hope that helps.
John Tongue Birdline Tas Moderator
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