Serge "dreaming of green Brittany" Le Huitouze wrote:

>BTW, what does BOU stands for?

FYI, the BOU = AOU.

I guess that was too cryptic. The BOU is the British Ornithological Union
and is a British equivalent to the AOU, the American Ornithologists Union.
They make decisions on species status, name changes etc. for Britain, I
don't have any idea if their decisions have any weight in other European
countries. In North America, north of Mexico (not including Quebec)
decisions made by the BOU are ***assumed*** to be the official European
decision by birders, largely because of our common language. I imagine that
there must be some European ornithological body that makes decisions for the
continent, but I am not aware of it.
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>Ahhhhhh, I enjoyed these scientific names, even more so when they refer
>to european species...

Saw _Oenanthe oenanthe_ this weekend, a very rare birds around here.
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>Serge "dreaming of green Brittany" Le Huitouze

Hey, I went to Great Brittany once, London was nice ~:-)

Alvaro Jaramillo
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