[cobirds] Re: So Long McCown's Longspur, Hello Thick-billed Longspur

On Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 3:03:34 PM UTC-6 wrote:

    Another thought on these birds named for men (3 women so -honored, all by their first names). I think of the Wilson's Warbler or the Swainson's Thrush as wild creatures. The " 's " implies possession -- and I don't think Wilson owned the warbler or Swainson the thrush. How about eliminating all the " 's " from those names?

Hello, Hugh et al.

For more (much more!) on this matter, see p. 38 ff. here ("Discontinue use of the possessive ("apostrophe–s") in patronymic bird names"):

http://checklist.americanornithology.org/assets/proposals/PDF/2019-A.pdf

Enjoy!

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

 

Hugh Kingery

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