Obviously, there’s some bad blood between Australian birders/taxonomists/listers etc. and our taxonomic source Clements, specifically over how what the default common name of certain species should be. This was brought to my attention by Sam Gordon, and it seems there is no clear set policy (at leas…

I think Australian names prioritized for Australia and Clements for global is the way to go. Pretty much a textbook case of why we can regionalize names - to deal with situations like this.

[image] birdwhisperer: I think it’s be worming into curator’s heads that anything goes now for taxonomy. This doesn’t really seem to be a fair or accurate assessment of many deviations. Broadly deviations tend to be added for a good reason, not for any random frivolous reason. Are there excep…

[image] birdwhisperer: Under this logic, why aren’t native Hawaiian names being used since it is their birds; ex. (Nene, 'Io, Pueo, etc) I try to use the Hawaiian names and when I enter them in iNat they certainly work to pull up those species in a search. It doesn’t trouble me much that the…

But a lot of these changes are being done without discussion. I was always led to believe the reason iNat didn’t recognize subfamilies for birds was because Clements didn’t. There was even a script we were using for flags when people asked for those taxa. But starting last year, numerous people have…

Different opinions of how to handle default common names

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insectobserver123 June 7, 2024, 12:28am 3

I was going to say the same thing as cthawley, that the Australian names be regional and the Clemants name global

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