Re: [cobirds] Changing Common Names of birds; example, Steller’s Jay

I suspect it was due to the fact that the type specimens that Townsend described in 1837 were from Fremont County, Wyoming.  This is a high plains county at the base of the Wind River and Absarokas Mountain Ranges.    You can still find "mountain" mountain plover's at 10000 feet in South Park and slightly lower in the San Luis Valley.

Charlie Chase

Denver

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 3:33 PM Cinnamon Bergeron <cinnamonbergeron@gmail.com> wrote:

Regarding badly named birds, why is the Mountain Plover called the Mountain Plover?  

These plovers are never in the Mountains and always on the plains.

Maybe someone has a good answer.

Cinnamon Bergeron

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 5:28 PM Woodcreeper29 <Woodcreeper29@comcast.net> wrote:

I've been called worse

Steve Larson 

Northglenn 

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On Apr 16, 2021, at 11:56 AM, 'Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote:



I have another gripe with common names: I dislike ones that demean the bird: Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Flycatcher.

Would you like us to call you the Least Birder, or a Lesser Observer?

Hugh

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