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Discussion => General Discussions => Topic started by: Steve Hood on May 21, 2018, 10:27:41 PM
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It will become official in July.
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/opin ... nada-jay-/ (https://www.insideottawavalley.com/opinion-story/8617500-long-live-the-canada-jay-/)
Although disappointed, Canadian ornithologists failed to protest the loss of one of the few bird names that included a reference to our great nation. But that all changed when Dan Strickland, former chief park naturalist in Algonquin Park and gray jay guru, discovered that there was no basis for the change in name for a species he has studied for nearly 50 years. Dan’s tenacity in tracking down the history of the change and lobbying the AOS to restore the bird’s name back to its original are worthy of a book.
Although the decision of the AOS won’t be officially released until July, I’ve heard through the grapevine that the vote on the joint proposal put forward by Dan Strickland and American ornithologist Carla Cicero was nine to one in favour of changing the name of gray jay back to Canada jay.
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Great info Steve and it is great to see Don's persistence paying off. Canada Jay it is then.
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Has the name change officially been announced yet?
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Yes, it was changed at the end of June. Even Cornell Labs now has it shown as the Canada Jay.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/gray-jays ... anada-jay/ (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/gray-jays-get-their-old-name-back-hello-canada-jay/)
"But now, the bird is the Canada Jay again, after a 9-to-1 vote by a committee of the American Ornithological Society (as the AOU is now called) to restore the species’s official common name."