Talk:Australasian gannet

Sula bassana
Query "The Australian Gannet (Morus serrator or Sula bassana)..."

Sula bassana is the Northern Gannet. Should this be Sula serrator, or is it a view that this is a subspecies of Northern? jimfbleak 12:53, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Moving to Australasian Gannet
(seems to be) Move Duja 11:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Australian Gannet → Australasian Gannet —(Discuss)— seems more neutral as these gannets also occur in New Zealand. Although a name doesn't necessarily have anything to do with where a creature is found, if there are two common names and one is more location neutral I feel the more location neutral one should be preferred. Also although I don't like use Google to establish prevalence "Australasian Gannet" does have more hits then "Australian Gannet" — Nil Einne 07:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, one of the major reason I don't like using Google is because it tends to have a pro-US and pro-Western bias even cf the number of English speakers. This probably doesn't really apply to this case Nil Einne 07:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Move the bird project has a good set of rules for the common names of birds see this; the HANZAB lists this species as the Australasian Gannet so the article should be moved there. --Peta 02:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - what are the official bodies etc for naming birdies? I would recommend that you use the official name. (and I say that as someone with both New Zealand and Australian citizenship) --Midnighttonight remind to go do uni work! 03:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - AFAIK there are no real official bodies (true with most organisms). Rather there are books etc published and often one or several of these are considered 'authorities' on the subject by most of the scientific community. In some cases, one specific book is so significant it accepted as the authority by most scientists but this is often not the case. In any case, scientists tend to be primarily interested in the scientific name and taxonomic relationships, common names are often partially ignored. But the link provided by Peta is very helpful (I should have looked for something first) and IMHO anyway it's pretty much settled since no one disputes the change and the de facto authority we use supports the change Nil Einne 10:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Move as per Peta. Pizzey and Knight "The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia" also uses Australasian Gannet. --Bduke 03:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Takapu
Does anyone know what the Maori word's etymology is? Richard001 (talk) 05:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * See https://pollex.shh.mpg.de/entry/takupu/, which is now cited in the article. Nurg (talk) 09:39, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Audio/video
I'll get some soon. Richard001 (talk) 02:51, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Got both (though there are some more pictures and another video to come). Richard001 (talk) 07:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Question re clutch

 * "One clutch of a single pale blue egg is laid yearly..."

Can a single egg be a clutch? I thought clutch meant multiple eggs. (Erroneously asked this in archive, so moving to here}.Moriori (talk) 21:38, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
 * looking at google, it suggests 'yes' Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:21, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Wikipedia is not so sure. Clutch (eggs) says '"A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles..."''. Moriori (talk) 00:24, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Clutch in the context of a metric would include clutches of one though, and is commonly used in that context in avian biology. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  03:39, 9 February 2019 (UTC)