Here is another site I found earlier, with old names
that have been changed by the AOU.
Lousiana Heron, Water Ouzel, etc,
Interesting to go thru the history, and see how many
of the old names you remember using ;)

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/updates/

Guy
--- B & P Bell <bellasoc at isomedia.com> wrote:

> Jerry and Tweets
>
> You piqued my curiosity, so I did a little followup.
> If you go to
> www.pwrc.usgs.gov/infobase/obsnames/obsnam2.pdf you
> will find a pdf version
> that can be downloaded and printed (49 pages).
>
> Brian H. Bell
> Woodinville Wa
> bellasoc at isomedia.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jbroadus at seanet.com>
> To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:59 PM
> Subject: [Tweeters] A little more on pesky bird
> names
>
>
> > On the thread abut colloquial bird names: There
> is a
> > great resource for older common bird names
> published
> > by the USDI, Fish and Wildlife Service, called
> "Obsolete
> > English Names of North American Birds and Their
> > Modern Equivalents" (Resource Publication 174) by
> > Richard Banks (1988). It is a fine listing of
> names to get
> > confused by. (I don't know if its still in print).
> >
> > One point you learn from exercising your brain
> with this
> > is that many of the "colloquial" names were once
> > accepted English names for what were considered
> > subspecies. E.G: Sacramento, San Diego, San
> > Joaquin, Santa Cruz, and Seattle wrens are all
> Bewick's
> > wrens today. We tend to stick to the present AOU
> > Checklist, but for several editions even it listed
> > numerous names for birds that are now "lumped"
> > together under much simpler, and more boring,
> labels.
> >
> > Some of the best, of course, are given to birds
> that
> > have a a standout quality -- who could question
> that
> > bog-pumper, dunk-a-doo, and stake-driver are all
> > American bitterns? I also like blue crane (great
> blue
> > heron), yellowhammer (northern flicker) and
> fly-up-the-
> > creek (green heron). Interesting (also) is that
> long-tailed
> > duck was an obsolete name for the oldsquaw. I
> won't go
> > in to some of the names for cormorants.
> >
> > I have been saving up to write a trip report,
> using only
> > the hated four letter codes, with all the codes
> based on
> > out of date common names. Anarchy in
> > communication.
> >
> > Jerry Broadus, PLS
> > Geometrix Surveying, Inc.
> > P.O. Box 249
> > Puyallup, WA. 98371
> >
> >
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Guy McWethy
Renton, WA
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