On the observation page, the common name is displayed in French. The location is a part of Canada that is not predominantly francophone, namely, Nova Scotia. This appears similar to another bug report.
The difference in display names between the observation page and the dashboard feed may be a bug.
The fact that you’re seeing the French name is due to how we defaulted common names preferences when we switched to the multiple common names functionality. I think what’s happening is that, prior to that switch, you had chosen Canada as your common names place preference so now it defaults to a generic “Canada” for common names preference, but that’s not tied to a lexicon so it’s showing you names tied to Canada regardless of lexicon.
I’d recommend deleting that preference from your account and then choosing English for the lexicon and Canada for the place preference, as shown here. That should then only show you English names, and if an English name is linked to Canada that name would be shown over other English names.
You may need to quit the app and restart it, or log out and log in again to pull in the names. The app caches names, I believe, and they need to be refreshed.
Yes, that did it, thanks. The Common Name Lexicon Display Order has gone from “Same as locale (Canada)” to “English (Canada).” “White-tailed deer” in English now shows on the website and in the app.
I did this, it almost worked. Now I think the bug is something very specific. It’s better in the app when I go to the observation, just not on the observation list.
