Re: A plea for English/Common Names
Hi,
As a novice to recording and using RODIS both through rECOrd and Biobank I find the English/Common names of species most useful. I have not managed to get my head around Latin names and find the English/Common names easier to remember.
I am also a teacher in a primary school and run a Nature Club, hoping to develop an awareness of the local environment to children aged 7 - 9 years old. As a club we are working with Merseyside Biobank and the children are very keen to enter the species they have seen into School's RODIS and RODIS. This I feel is the age to nurture a love and understanding of the flora and fauna of our world and hopefully encourage some of these young recorders to grow into the recorders of the future. I feel that having as many species as possible with English/Common names can only help the children to remember species for future sightings and enable them to check their identifications easily.
I have, on occasion, given the children both the English and the Latin name for a plant - it is always the English name that they remember despite me 'pushing' the Latin name.
With this in mind, I am asking for as many English/Common names as possible to be entered into the NBN dictionary.
Thanks
Susan