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What’s in an English bird name?

By Robert Driver|2021-10-29T09:36:37+00:001 Nov 2021|IBIS, inclusivity, museum collections, natural history, nomenclature, systematics, Taxonomy|

How can we improve on English common bird names?

What say ye, countrymen, to a Jabber of Jays?

By Robert Joseph Greene|2021-12-07T19:20:04+00:006 Jan 2014|Community, Names, News, nomenclature, People|

Should the collective noun for jays be changed to a 'jabber'?