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Bob, all,
With apols for heading somewhat off-topic. Moderators please forgive me
Concerning Steller’s Jay..
As you may well be aware there is a wonderful book concerning Bering’s second voyage “Where the Sea Breaks its Back” by Corey Ford, pub 1966. Most of this book’s gripping 200 or so pages are actually about Steller and his natural history discoveries, some 280 years ago, including those famously named after him such as the Jay, sea-cow and Sea-Eagle. I have read this tome several times and highly recommend it if you have any interest in either exploration, natural history, or both. The two arctic expeditions of Vitus Bering (a Dane) on behalf of the Russian monarchy during the reign of Peter the Great each started with a 6,000-mile cross-country trek from St. Petersburg to Kamchatka that makes the Lewis & Clark expedition look like a cake walk. And that was just to get to the beginning of the sea voyages. Also in the book I learned that Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the Aleut word agunalaksh, which means “the shores where the sea breaks its back.” Of course everyone knew that from school right? And as for the author’s own first sighting of the Aleutians, I can totally relate..
Declaration: No financial involvement, but proud to shout for European Naturalists!
Dick Filby
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Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass) has argued insightfully for a “grammar of animacy” that challenges Western tenets of naming. Learning the Potawatomi language that her grandfather was forbidden to speak, she finds out that the Hudson River was originally called “the river that runs both ways” (because of the tidal action). She cites Krista Tippett: “The words we use shape how we understand ourselves, how we interpret the world, how we treat others. Words make worlds” (Becoming Wise). Indigenous languages use verbs and pronouns to name non-human animals, including birds, to describe and respect their relationships to us and the wider ecosystem, often incorporated in stories (e.g., Steller’s jays hopping up trees to see danger better).
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On Apr 16, 2021, at 11:56 AM, 'Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds <cob...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
I have another gripe with common names: I dislike ones that demean the bird: Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Flycatcher.
Would you like us to call you the Least Birder, or a Lesser Observer?
Hugh
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