FIGURE 1 in Bird names as critical communication infrastructure in the contexts of history, language, and culture

FIGURE 1. An example of the greater stability of English bird names relative to scientific names for a single species, which also shows the gateway effects of an eponymous English name to the literature (i.e., the area under the blue curve indicates the importance in communication and access of that name relative to all the others). This is an historic overview of the use of Wilson's Plover (blue) as an English bird name relative to the five scientific names the species has had from the early 1800s through 2019, Aegialitis wilsonius Ord (red), Aegialitis wilsonia (dark green), Ochthodromus wilsonius (golden), Pagolla wilsonia (bright green), and Charadrius wilsonia (purple), using Google Books Ngram Viewer.