Re: Common Names changed in Rec6
We have just been reporting on the birds on some of our sites and had trouble finding in the results some pretty common birds. The reason was in Recorder 6 now their normal common names have become synonyms and strange common names have replaced them as preferred. Example:
Magpie (Pica pica) is now Black-billed Magpie. I personally and others here have never heard of this one before.
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is now Great Cormorant.
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is now Common Snipe
Curlew (Numenius arquata) is now Eurasian Curlew
Swallow (Hirundo rustica) is now Barn Swallow. Again never heard of this.
Blackbird (Turdus merula) is now Common Blackbird
Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) is now Common Chiffchaff
Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) is now Common Wood Pigeon
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) is now Eurasian Jackdaw
Robin (Erithacus rubecula) is now European Robin
Lots of other Common and Eurasian somethings!!!
Is there any way we can have our normal common names back please?
Brian
(Conservation Officer (Buckinghamshire), BBOWT)