[Posted by Chuck Almdale, suggested by Diana Roberts]

Jarad Del Rosso writes a lot, and most of it is about birds. His website The Lonesome Whip-Poor-Will lists his writing in over seventy-five categories from Artificial Intelligence to Wrens. A friend sent me this link to the following article as she knows I have a particular interest in the names of birds – their meaning, their origins, their histories, and the foolishness of changing them willy-nilly to suit the whims of the moment. This article is a good read.

Goatsucker? Nightjar? Surprising Histories of Birding’s Most Famous Names.

What is a Goatsucker? What is a Nightjar?

And what do these iconic names tell us about the history of birds?

Link

Link to his upcoming book, out in 2027, The Lonesome Whip-Poor-Will.