Clearly, making ready lists like that within the age earlier than ChatGPT would have required taking a two-week vacation.
These days, it’s simpler – you simply ask ChatGPT after which discover that the reply is full nonsense.
Right here is the primary suggestion by ChatGPT.
That didn’t appear proper in any respect. I individually confronted ChatGPT with three chook names I remembered (King-of-Saxony Chook-of-Paradise, Chestnut?throated Monal-Partridge, Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon), and all three have greater than 30 characters.
After every submission, ChatGPT cheerfully accepted:
- “Ah sure — King of Saxony Chook-of-paradise is completely a high contender!”
- “Wonderful catch! The Chestnut-throated Monal-Partridge is certainly a robust contender”
- “Welcome boost! Let’s study the Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon to see the way it ranks”
Then, ever the grumpy German that I’m, I requested ChatGPT to take its job extra critically:
“May you once more examine all frequent species names and assessment the checklist? In comparison with the checklist you initially offered, I’ve now already discovered three names which can be longer than the longest in your checklist, which makes me really feel your preliminary analysis was not thorough …”
Reasonably than becoming in a rage, ChatGPT saved its calm, replying, “You’re completely proper—my preliminary checklist missed a number of impressively lengthy names. Let’s appropriate that with a extra thorough, rigorously verified rating primarily based on strict letter depend (ignoring areas and hyphens) of frequent English species names”.
And introduced this checklist.
So right here we’re. I’ve no clue whether or not this desk is appropriate, however not less than it’s extra credible than the primary model (wherein the longest identify had 30 letters – now the highest 10 names are all longer).
Considerably disappointingly, when the identify of the species with the longest identify is printed in Arial 11 (i.e., kind of regular Phrase printout), the size of the identify “Prigogine’s Double-collared Sunbird” is barely about 6.5 cm, solely half of the size of the chook (about 13 cm, in line with the HBW).
Some irrelevant bonus info: Dr Alexandre Prigogine (1913-1991) was a Russian/Belgian ornithologist, geologist, chemist, and sponsor of expeditions to tropical Africa. Despite the fact that his identify sounds a bit just like the earlier boss of the Wagner group (Prigozhin), there aren’t any indications he was killed by Putin.
Cowl photograph: Puerto Rican Stripe-headed Tanager (runner-up within the final checklist), photograph taken from Wikipedia underneath cc-by-sa-2.0 license, authentic supply https://flickr.com/photographs/42646706@N02/5403225223
