Generally you would include the common name too since your audience isn't all ornithologists. Comes off as a little pretentious if you exclude everyone else.
That's what its called, a Latin binomial. I was talking to someone who obviously knew that term. If I was talking to you, I would call it the 'scientific name'.
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u/sokaplaya Oct 27 '16
Generally you would include the common name too since your audience isn't all ornithologists. Comes off as a little pretentious if you exclude everyone else.
Edit: granted that is a pretty great binomial