There’s been a bit of uproar among opponents to the recent bird name change effort resulting in an online petition.
But a large proportion of the signees seem to be UK based birders whose birds are low priorities for changes and who have little “skin in the game” as it were.
There are comments by a UK birder and author called Chris Goodie which show an absolutely fundamental misunderstanding of not only the effort but the process, suggesting that those opposing this have not even looked at the AOS recommendations document which seems like a bare minimum to me.
