but most herons are multi-colored. the whole point of the current name
change effort is descriptive & unique names. which is why the old name of
Green-backed Heron made sense, and worked fine for much of my life. the
AOU made a lot of unnecessary name changes (including its own) but can't
seem to grapple with the really logical recent proposals.

Chris Kessler

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM Diann MacRae via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Hi, Tweets and all

>

> Well, I certainly go back to the original names - someone liked green, for

> sure. I kind of liked Sally's suggestion of 'Multi-colored heron'- names

> are fun and totally confusing at times.

>

> Cheers, Diann

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