Cancel culture is coming for the birds. Starting in 2024, 70 to 80 North American bird species boasting English names will be renamed. The American Ornithological Society (AOS), a group born out ...

The AOS has changed the English names of birds before. In 2020, a prairie songbird named after John P. McCown, a naturalist and Confederate Army general, was renamed the thick-billed longspur.

Media Prominent bird group to rename avians connected to racism, slavery, 'robbers of Indigenous graves' 'Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny ...

The American Ornithological Society, a birding group, pledged Wednesday to change the English names of all bird species in the U.S. and Canada currently named after people.

After years-long discussion, birds will no longer be named after people — a decision meant to dissociate the animals from problematic eponyms. The American Ornithological Society announced ...

The birds’ new names will reflect the species’ appearance or habitat — some trait associated with the actual bird, in other words, and not with the colonial explorer who first identified it.

James Brown: Hello and welcome to Five Things. I'm James Brown. It's Sunday, April 9th, 2023. Go Bills. Every week we take an idea or concept and go deep, and this episode is for the birds.

The society and its predecessor, the American Ornithologists’ Union, have managed a list of English-language bird names in North America since 1886. They are used by schools, ...

The official naming organization for birds in the U. S. is making a bold move, after concerns were raised about birds being named after people with questionable histories.

Twenty years ago, I wrote an article about my cousin Brenda’s country garden in Bognar Regis in Sussex, England. Like many rural dwellers in England, Brenda has a lovely home and a small, quaint ...