I have seen a couple of emails about the international group trying to change US bird names. I have a Ph.D. in ornithology and the right contacts to check on this so I contacted Scott Gillihan, the Executive Officer of the American Ornithologist's Union. He responded and told me he would talk with the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature. This is the society that is the official nomenclature (bird name) society for US ornithology. So I will let you know what this group says they plan to do about these bird name changes. Kathy Beal ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]