NEW PAPER! A feathered past: Colonial influences on bird naming practices, and a new common name for Ardenna carneipes (Gould 1844) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....#BirdNamesForBirds 🧵🧪

Very interesting abstract. Taxonomy is so important in the life sciences. I think so anyways! Before I was taught it at university, I thought of it as a boring lifeless sort of thing, But I found it fascinating. Of course genetics is so important now.

In the original description, Gould refers to the colour of the feet as "culmine apiceque fuscis; pedibus flavescenti-carneis", meaning "legs, feet, and membranes yellowish flesh-colour" www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46217#p...