Open Letter to the Mayor of Suncheon- A Layman's Complaint

Dear Sir,

I came across your website on Suncheon Bay while doing some research for my blog. In some ways it helped me a great deal. However, may I be so bold as to make one suggestion?

First, let me quote an example from your website:
"Passage birds are the measures of productivity of swamp. For example, numerius madagascariensis loses half the weight during flying 4000~ 5000km non-stop from Austrailia."

It sounds like you employed a zoologist to write instead of getting the naturalists to pass on the facts to professional advertising people who could make the text more appealing and easier to understand. How many people know what "numerius madagascariensis" means? Why send me back to Google to figure out that it refers to...., errr, excuse me while I do this...ah, it asks me if I mean "numeNius madagascariensis" and then I learn that you're talking about the eastern curlew. Don't know if there's a western counterpart but at least I've heard of curlews.

It couldn't possible hurt your cause if you included the plain English names or better still, place the Latin names in parenthesis next to the common labels. Surely "mudskipper" sounds more friendly and interesting than "boleophthalmus pectinirostris"?

Wouldn't more visitors be drawn to Suncheon Bay if you said a number of hooded cranes and black-faced spoonbills stop over there instead of Grus Monacha and Platalea leucorodia?

Thanks for the Latin lesson but no thanks. I'd rather learn Korean. Sorry to sound like an ingrate but I'm tired and grumpy from having to spend so much time figuring out what's what.

Sincerely,
ajumma


Source:
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/bird/237