Brian et al,
Don't forget about Pioneer Naturalists by the great entomologist Dr. Howard
Ensign Evans. He gained fame at Harvard working along side the likes of E. O.
Wilson before deciding mid-career to make a change and come West to CSU to
study ground-nesting wasps and toil in a region of th
And, combining erudition with levity, from a Brit with an international
perspective: *Mrs. Moreau's warbler: How birds got their names* (Stephen
Moss).
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 9:22 PM Brian Johnson
wrote:
> This has been an interesting thread. I have had an interest in the names
> behind the b
Hey, all.
As DWEM ornithologists go, Steller was actually a pretty righteous dude.
Steller got in trouble with his patrons--in two countries!--for being
overly sympathetic to indigenous peoples.
Also, Steller is relatively well known.
But how about the person for whom the Ross's Goose was named?
Don’t forget the ringneck duck! How many times have we called it ring billed
duck anyway?
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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> On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:10 PM, Susan Rosine wrote:
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>
> And yet the Scrub Jay is now two Jays; one named for a state, the other named
> after natu
And yet the Scrub Jay is now two Jays; one named for a state, the other
named after naturalist Samuel Washington Woodhouse.
They really need to address issues such as the Orange-crowned Warbler. Now
that's a stupid name!
And while I'm on my "mini-rant", if Chickadees are named for their vocals,
how
Gentle Birders,
Along this line of thinking is the former McCown's Longspur now saddled
with an abomination of a name. When I moved to Montana over 20 years ago, I
found colonies of this species nesting on the tops of several buttes near
my home. The extreme shortgrass was like an extensive
I can’t think of anything better than listing a Kwish-Kwishee Jay on my eBirds
tally.
Van Rudd
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> On Apr 18, 2021, at 15:43, Emil Yappert wrote:
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> +1
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>>> On Apr 16, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Nathan Pieplow wrote:
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>> Why should Steller get a j
+1
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> On Apr 16, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Nathan Pieplow wrote:
>
>
> Why should Steller get a jay named after him when he spent only a few hours
> with the species and learned virtually nothing about it? He just happened to
> be the first European person to shoot one.
>
> "The
I can just imagine the nick names.
Ira Sanders
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 7:27 AM Nathan Pieplow wrote:
> Why should Steller get a jay named after him when he spent only a few
> hours with the species and learned virtually nothing about it? He just
> happened to be the first European person to shoot
hter
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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: Changing Common Names of birds; example, Steller’s
Jay
Bob
Maybe it will turn out that Steller was a Confederate general and they will
change the name to Mountain Jay
Ira Sanders
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Sanders
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:09 PM
To: Robert Righter
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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: Changing Common Names of birds; example, Steller’s
Jay
Bob
Maybe it will turn out that
Why should Steller get a jay named after him when he spent only a few hours
with the species and learned virtually nothing about it? He just happened
to be the first European person to shoot one.
"The Makahs tell a story about how the bird we know as the Steller's Jay -
the bird the Makahs call *K
Bob
Maybe it will turn out that Steller was a Confederate general and they
will change the name to Mountain Jay
Ira Sanders
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 12:30 PM Robert Righter
wrote:
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> Peter the Great,Tsar of all of Russia, invited Georg W. Steller, a German
> scientist to come to Russia and help e
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