At 12:44 PM -0400 8/6/99, Turaco14 at aol.com wrote:
>Tweeters -
>
> I found this site on the internet about Africa. If you scroll to the
>bottom right hand corner, there should be an interesting article on the
>changes of birds' names in Southern Africa. Here's the address:
>http://www.wildnetafrica.com/wildlifenews/1999
>
>Tyler Davis

>SITE MAP: WILDLIFE NEWS: 1999 WildNet Africa News Archive: Anger at plans
to alter birds' names. (27 July, 1999) A furore has erupted over
proposals by ornithologists to change the names of some of southern
Africa's bird species. <snip> Some of the proposed name changes
include the dabchick which could become known as the grebe, the black
eagle as the Verreaux's eagle, the *rock pigeon* as the *speckled eagle*
(emphasis added), dikkops as thick-knees and window finches as indigobirds

Boy, no wonder people are pissed. Turning a pigeon into an eagle, that's
some name change!

Rob Saecker
Olympia