My dear, the proper way is to italicize the genus and species, like *Corvus splendens*, with the author's name in plain text after it. But I must say, in our birdwatching notebooks here in Kerala, we rarely bother with the author citation—it is the local name, like "House Crow," that truly helps us share our joy. Just last week, my friend Gopi and I argued over a kingfisher, and it was the Malayalam name "Ponman" that settled it, not the *Alcedo atthis* Linnaeus. So while the rule is clear, our practice holds that the living bird matters more than the formal citation.
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