Subject: [Tweeters] capitalized bird names
Date: Feb 13 21:20:55 2006
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


By my way of thinking, if there is an extremely well recognized organization
such as the AOU that publishes standard common names for species of these
other organisms, then capitalize away, otherwise don't. I, personally,
don't know my mice, fish, grasses, butterflys, etc., well enough to know
whether my identification was done correctly to species when referring to
non-bird organisms in many cases. So I'd hesitate to try to claim I did -
hence, no capitalization.

But, to each his own.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
== birdmarymoor at verizon.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Bletsch" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] capitalized bird names


> Dear Tweeters,
>
> One oddity that comes of the capitalization of bird
> names is that, when other groups of organisms don't
> get the same treatment,it makes for a strange-looking
> construction. Thus, we might see a sentence in which
> "a Long-eared Owl catches an oldfield mouse," or one
> in which "an Osprey eats a bluegill," or maybe "a
> White-crowned Sparrow perches on some reed canary
> grass."
>
>
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
>
> near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
>
> garybletsch at yahoo.com
>
>
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