Comments on: 10,347 Bird Species, or Thereabouts

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:29:33 +0000

Yeah, Mike Baird is a great photographer and makes pictures available under Creative Commons, so he’s a great guy too.

By: Birdwatching Uk

Birdwatching Uk — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:05:26 +0000

Lovely picture of a Plover you have there!

By: Andy Gibb

Andy Gibb — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:19:13 +0000

Aye, forged in the fires of Mount Doom. My latest phenetic peregrinations have led me to your Canada goose, a species we totally ignore over here, but one that spawned cackling goose in 2004. Everyone seems to agree about this. I now wish I’d been more rigorous in my winter observation of Canadas in California’s Central Valley: I could have got another armchair tick!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:26:49 +0000

Love your species metaphor at the beginning of this post, Andy. It amazes me how scrupulously we have to evaluate taxonomies. I moved to the IOC list last year mainly on account of that fluidity you mention but still can’t wrap my head around some of the recommended name changes. Even worse, my life list conflicts with my ABA lists. One can only hope we’ll one day have one taxonomy to rule them all.

By: Michael "Mike" L. Baird

Michael "Mike" L. Baird — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:26:47 +0000

The Pokerbird Andy Gibb, Thanks for posting the Creative Commons use note on the use of my Western Snowy Plover western-snowy-plover-9450eflatten Charadrius alexandrinus at your ultra-cool 10,347 Bird Species, or Thereabouts. Your writings are prolific and quite impressive and very useful and informative.