Subject: [birdwords] Fwd: More on the AOU name change for Oldsquaw
Date: Nov 18 14:34:32 1999
From: Diann MacRae - tvulture at halcyon.com


Hi, Tweets

Since we have had an occasional thread going on this subject, thought you
would like to read this (or maybe you won't like to read this!):

Cheers, Diann
>
>I just noted the thread on TexBirds about Long-tailed Duck vs. Oldsquaw.
>The A.O.U. officially changed the name to Long-tailed Duck at the annual
>meeting at Cornell this past August. Obviously the decision will not
>appear in print until the next supplement (published in the July issue of
>_The Auk_ in odd numbered years), so it'll be a while until the
>publication. But I went ahead and made the switch in NAB just to be
>"cutting edge," as it were.
>
>Greg Lasley
> Visit my website at <http://home.earthlink.net/~glasley/>
>Secretary, Texas Bird Records Committee
> Visit the TBRC at <http://members.tripod.com/~tbrc/>
>Editor, Texas Region, North American Birds
>305 Loganberry Ct., Austin, TX 78745-6527


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