IUCN Red List data observations

The table below lists English common names with a likely error or a formatting choice worth checking, with a tidied suggestion where one is clear. Otherwise-invisible characters in the current value are shown as visible markers, and the Taxon column shows which species or other taxon each name belongs to. This re-runs a review of common-name oddities that was hand-compiled against the 2016-2 release, so the two releases can be compared side by side in the summary. Checks that no longer find anything (for example the question marks that once stood in for unsupported characters) are still listed, at zero, so it is clear they ran.

Why it matters

The English common name is the label most people see first. Stray whitespace, species codes, all-capitals text, or a stray marker in that field show up directly in search results, lists, and exports.

Suggestion

Trim the whitespace cases, which are unambiguous. For the Hawaiian names, the suggested form replaces a backtick that stands in for the ʻokina with the ʻokina character itself (U+02BB), so “Hawaii Elepaio” becomes “Hawaiʻi ʻElepaio”; a backtick used as a possessive apostrophe (“Law`s”) becomes a plain apostrophe instead. Missing kahakō (macron) vowels are not added automatically. The other kinds include false positives and stylistic choices, so review them case by case.