Reference: “Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names an Online Searchable Database”

From a Post by Nate Swick on the American Birding Association Website

Scientific bird names are mysterious to a lot of us. Unless you have a basic grounding in Latin or Greek, they tend to be meaningless to anyone except the researchers who use them regularly, just jumbles of letters as cryptic as a spell in a Harry Potter book. James Jobling tried to remedy that in 1991 with his Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names, reissued by the British publisher Helm in 2010.
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Handbook of Birds of the World, no stranger to massive bird-centric projects, is hosting Jobling’s masterpiece online as a searchable database [free].

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Direct to Online Resource “Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology”
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