A general question to the public, one species I’ve been iNatting particularly recently has been the Swainson’s Thrush . It has six subspecies, let none of them have a common name besides phillipsi listed on the site. The issue is, nobody is confirming my numerous Swainson’s Thrush sightings, and it …

[image] birdwhisperer: Is there an iNat policy prohibiting this? I would say yes. Just the Name, Please Please don’t add information to a name in addition to the name itself, e.g. “grumblefoots (this genus is monotypic, just ID to species!).” We use names in a lot of places for a lot of di…

Using modified name for subspecies

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vreinkymov July 3, 2022, 12:52pm 3

There can also be problems with assigning common names to subspecies, see topic: House Sparrow now English Sparrow subspecies?

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Using modified name for subspecies

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