Subject: Re: Worgnet - Old Squaw (fwd)
Date: Mar 14 22:08:34 1996
From: Diane Richardson - RICHD at saltspring.com


>Tweets--Any thoughts on this? Apologies to those who already read Worgnet.
>
>Connie Veldink
><cveldink at ctc.ctc.edu>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:58:32 +0500
>From: Sue Daniels <sdaniels at VT.EDU>
>To: Multiple recipients of list WORGNET <WORGNET at SIVM.BITNET>
>Subject: Worgnet - Old Squaw
If the name is not presently being
>changed, could someone please refer me to an appropriate member of the
>checklist committee who would hear my concerns?

Fine idea. If the change isn't in process, it should be. Years ago a new
birder asked me what that yodeling duck was and when I said it was an Old
Squaw she was outraged and has called them Legionaires ever since. Yes
that's sexist too but it allways makes me smile.

Diane Richardson

Diane Richardson,Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada <richd at saltspring.com>