name change – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Another Scrub-Jay Name Change in 2024

By Mia McPherson|2023-12-05T04:38:31-06:00December 5th, 2023|Categories: Birds, Ophir Canyon, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays|Tags: adult, American Ornithological Society, AOS, Aphelocoma woodhouseii, autumn, bill, corvids, fall, food, jay, jays, juniper, junipers, Juniperus osteosperma, name change, perched, scrub-jay, scrub-jays, seeds, shrub, sky island mountains, tree, Utah Juniper, winter, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay|

Lately, I've been wondering what the new name for the Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay species, that I photograph here in Utah, will be when it is changed in 2024.

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Autumn Snipe Photos And Common Name Changes

By Mia McPherson|2023-11-17T12:13:02-06:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Wilson's Snipes|Tags: adult, American Ornithological Society, AOS, autumn, close up, fall, foraging, Gallinago delicata, grasses, marsh, name change, peeking, portrait, shallow, shorebirds, snipe, snipes, water, wetlands, Wilson's Snipe|

The last time I visited Bear River MBR, I took quite a few photos of Wilson's Snipes. I also wondered what the new name for this snipe species will soon be.

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Possible Name Change for Ring-necked Duck to Ring-billed Duck

By Mia McPherson|2023-02-05T07:47:08-06:00January 20th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Ring-necked Ducks, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Birding Association, American Ornithological Society, Aythya collaris, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, male, name change, pond, Ring-billed Duck, Ring-necked Duck, urban, waterfowl, winter|

In 2017 one of the proposals submitted to the AOS is to rename Ring-necked Ducks to Ring-billed Ducks and I personally am all for the name change!

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Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay – A Familiar Bird with a New Name

By Mia McPherson|2023-01-12T03:15:40-06:00July 8th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Cascade Springs, Ophir Canyon, Tooele County, Uinta National Forest, Utah, Wasatch County, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays|Tags: adult, Aphelocoma woodhouseii, behavior, California Scrub-Jay, differences, habitat, jay, jays, name change, oak, perched, pinyon pine, Samuel Washington Woodhouse, scrub-jay, scrub-jays, snow, split, Western Scrub-Jay, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay|

The long-awaited Scrub-Jay split has officially happened! Western Scrub-Jay can be crossed out in a our fields guides and the two new names California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay can be penciled in.

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