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Common Names Have Sure Changed

5/3/2017

 
Jim and Deirdre Turnbull from Naramata BC have recently acquired a copy of an early (1923) field guide - Birds of the Pacific Coast by Willard Ayres Eliot. He bases his common names on the 1910 Check-List of the American Ornithologists #39; Union (AOU) with the BC usage verified by Francis Kermode of the Provincial Museum, Victoria.
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Well, common names have sure changed. While we wait for spring, and just for fun, would anyone like to guess the current common names of the following birds, all of which occur in BC, as given in Eliot's book. In no particular order: 

Seattle wren 
Tule wren 
Golden pileolated warbler 
Lutescent warbler 
Slender-billed nuthatch 
Arkansas kingbird 
Nuttall sparrow 
Gairdner woodpecker 
Harris woodpecker 
Desert sparrow hawk 
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None of these species are currently rare in BC - If there is enough interest, I will give the answers in a week or so. 

This quiz was found on the Yahoo Group - 
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