Tag: taxonomy

Birding, Food, Reviews

Mast Landing Brewing Company: Pantless Thunder Goose Double India Pale Ale

July 23, 2021 by Tristan Lowery No Comments

The Guinness toucan is easily the most iconic bird mascot in beer history, but the storied Dublin brewery also boasted an ostrich and a...

Birds

Changing Bird Names (Again)

May 11, 2021 by Jason Crotty 5 Comments

On April 16, 2021, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), had a “Community Congress on English Bird Names” to...

Birds

What are the Costs of Changing Bird Names?

September 8, 2020 by Jason Crotty 10 Comments

The birding world has been debating whether honorific common bird names (e.g., Clark’s Nutcracker or Baird’s Sandpiper) should be changed. The broad arguments are...

Birds

“Keep your taxonomy out of my field guide” – revisited

April 30, 2017 by Jochen 18 Comments

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why field guides that arrange...

News

A Lump and a Split and the List is Shredded?

August 24, 2016 by Meredith Mann 3 Comments

(With regards to The Smiths for the title inspiration) North American listers, if you haven’t already been following the latest drama in bird taxonomy,...

Birds

New Zealand Loses Another Endemic

March 23, 2016 by Duncan No Comments

I almost missed it, but New Zealand lost another endemic species recently. Now I’ve written before about how careless this country is with species,...