this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Ornithologists should hang out with astronomers. They do the same naming scheme with telescopes. They've named some classics like the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you're replying to left out "Aperture" by mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Purple-headed purplebird...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I hate that either of these names could be right.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Bird names are either this or "yellow-boobied titcock" and there's no in-between

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

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