01-25: What's in a Common Name?

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What is in a bird common name? It’s a question that many of us might not think about immediately, but there’s a lot going on in those lists we are so familiar with. Capitalization, honorifics, patronyms, how names are assigned, how they’re changed. The names are an important part of how we interact with birds around us, though perhaps the least considered. Birding editor Ted Floyd joins host Nate Swick to talk about it in a wide-ranging discussion.

Also, it's Snowy Owl season, and that means not only opportunities to enjoy the spectacular birds but also inevitable conflicts. Check out Project SNOWstorm's Snowy Owl ettiquette and the ABA's Code of Birding Ethics.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, I'm Nate Swick, your host of the American Birding Podcast, and I'm going to take a little time up top to talk to you about the American Birding Association's end-of-year appeal, which is running right now.
0:10.7	This is our biggest fundraising effort of the year, and a strong December sets us up for a great 2018, during which we can continue to provide this great free content to burders around North America
0:20.8	and the world. We are not professional fundraisers by any means. We are burders just like you,
0:26.3	but we love creating these resources for you all. And even a small donation can really help us do that.
0:31.3	Maybe a dollar an episode, $2 an episode. That's American or Canadian dollars. You know, we're not picky.
0:36.9	Any of it helps.
0:38.2	You can go to www.w.a.org slash appeal 2017. That too is important. Don't forget it.
0:46.0	If you want to make me look really good, you can say that the podcast sent you.
0:49.2	Thanks for a great year and thanks for your continued support. On with the episode.
1:04.3	Thank you. year and thanks for your continued support. On with the episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast.
1:07.4	I'm your host, Nathan Swick, and we've done it.
1:13.6	One year. At around this time, last year, we first launched this podcast. I'm your host, Nate Zwick, and we've done it. One year. At around this time, last year, we first launched this podcast, and I can tell you that it is incredibly gratifying to see the
1:18.5	response we've gotten. I feel like we've learned a lot in that time about how to create
1:23.9	compelling content, and especially how to make that content sound good.
1:28.2	I think that's probably the more difficult part.
1:30.5	I want to thank all of you listening, whether you've been with us since the beginning or you
1:33.6	came along sometime in the last year.
1:35.9	Thank you for helping to make this thing a success.
1:39.0	It's been a lot of fun.
1:40.7	On to the topic at hand, Snowy Owls.
1:46.4	This has already been an up year for Snowy Owls in many parts of the ABA area, particularly the east and the Midwest up around the Great Lakes.
1:51.4	This is a bird that, above all, seems to make people crazy and not always in the positive sense.
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