hello tweets,

and michael (who might know the answer to this question, too!),

i just found on the web in the ADF&G wildlife notebook series that
the gray-headed chickadee's common name was recently officially changed
to siberian tit. is this true? if so, who monitors the common names
of species and where so they publish their papers?

i also assume that the chestnut-backed chickadee, Poecile rufescens,
has not had a gender-related name change in the species name (my latin
is rusty and my greek is almost non-existent now, however, it appears
to me that the species name is not genderized for this species).

regards,

Deborah Wisti-Peterson, Girl Scientist nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Visit me on the web: http://students.washington.edu/~nyneve/
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