According to The A.O.U. Checklist of North American Birds, which has an
appendix of French names for North American birds, the Passenger Pigeon is
(was?) Tourte voyageuse.

Given that there is a French-speaking part of North America (Quebec etc.) it is
reasonable that the A.O.U. has a French-names appendix. However, it is
unforgivable that they don't also have a Spanish-names appendix!

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== hummer at isomedia.com

----- Original Message -----
From: James West <jdwest at accessone.com>
To: <Bluetooth at csi.com>
Cc: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: Passenger pigeon in French


> Bob: the French for Passenger Pigeon is "la tourte". There's a French name
> for any bird well known to science, just as there are English names in the
> English-speaking scientific community for for countless species that don't
> occur in English-speaking countries. You might get some useful expressions
> for your presentation from the Canadian website
>
> http://www.qc.ec.gc.ca/faune/oiseaux_menaces/html/tourte.html
>
> James West
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Mauritsen <Bluetooth at csi.com>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:35 PM
> Subject: Passenger pigeon in French
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I've now written my presentation in French about the
> passenger pigeon and its extinction. I've been calling
> it "pigeon passager" in French, which means "migratory
> pigeon", because I don't know if there is
> an official title. I'm assuming that there must be,
> since the bird used to live across southern and eastern
> Canada.
>
> So does anyone know the official French name for this? I
> think I assume that it must be a French-Canadian term,
> since there were no passenger pigeons in France.
>
> Please note: My presentation is on Thursday. And it won't
> be a big deal if I just use the above term. But I'm
> curious to know if there is a better one.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob Mauritsen
> green lake
> seattle
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