Green heron's naming woes… I'm old enough to remember the green-backed heron's name change. Given the brief small amount of green …. Woe with me! Perhaps the gray green-backed rufous necked heron. Multi colored heron?
Sally M. Walters
Sacramento CA

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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:37:12 -0700
From: Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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Larry,

? We, the people in the field, don't get to choose the names for the
birds.? It's best to just

accept whatever name they have rather than lobby for a change ... ????
At least the name

of the Green Heron hasn't changed like the Marsh Hawk and some others
...? - Jim in Skagit




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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:16:18 -0700
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I didn?t get the sense that Larry was lobbying for a change, but that he
was having a bit of fun with physical descriptors.

I never did understand where ?green heron? came from!

Elaine

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 12:37?PM Jim Betz via Tweeters <
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> Larry,

>

> We, the people in the field, don't get to choose the names for the

> birds. It's best to just

>

> accept whatever name they have rather than lobby for a change ... ???

> At least the name

>

> of the Green Heron hasn't changed like the Marsh Hawk and some others

> ... - Jim in Skagit

>

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