[TN-Bird] Fw: Memphis CBC record high total

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Peeples" <wpeeples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harrington, Joseph" <jharring@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [TN-Bird] Memphis CBC record high total


> I figure you are right, re. the reason for name change of Oldsquaw to
> Long-tailed Duck.
> I have wondered, though, if  the word "squaw" might not be considered
> possibly offensive to some (?)
> AOU still calls "Common Merganser" what the British call "Goosander"
(which
> I think is a neat name for a bird that's not common here).
> But I'm glad we still use the word "loon"; "diver" just isn't as good a
> name.  And "Great Northern Diver" wouldn't make sense in North America,
> where the Common Loon is the least northern of the 5 loon species.
> And I hope we keep distinguishing jaegers from skuas and murres from
> guillemots, unlike the British.
> Rob Peeples
> Germantown, TN
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harrington, Joseph" <jharring@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <wpeeples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:36 AM
> Subject: RE: [TN-Bird] Memphis CBC record high total
>
>
> Rob -
>
> Is the name change (from Oldsquaw to Long-tailed duck) really about PC?
> I thought it was to harmonize N. American and European bird names (like
> the change from sparrow-hawk to kestrel or marsh-hawk to harrier).
>
> Joe Harrington
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Peeples [mailto:wpeeples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:49 AM
> To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Memphis CBC record high total
>
>
> 19 Dec 2003
>     The species total for the Memphis Christmas Count, held last Sunday
> the 14th, is now 104 species plus one count week, 3 higher than the
> previous record for this 76 year old count.
>     Additions include an Oldsquaw (Long-tailed Duck for the politically
> correct) at TVA Lake; Horned Grebes, Wild Turkeys and Bonaparte's Gulls
> at President's Island; a Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Dunlins, 2 LeConte's
> Sparrows and 20 Lapland Longspurs in the Ensley area.  And a count week
> Turkey Vulture.
> Rob Peeples
> Germantown, TN
>
>
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