English birds and butterflies are being hit by a combination of habitat loss and climate change that could see species vanishing from some areas, scientists have warned. A number of cold-climate ...

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 ...

Dozens of famous bird species will lose their familiar names in the coming months and years as part of a nationwide effort to eliminate monikers “clouded by racism” and to diversify bird-watching.

Climate change is having an overall positive impact on most English bird species, according to new research based on 50 years of “citizen science” surveys.. Some 13 species including corn ...

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.

Other bird namesakes are less problematic. Alexander Wilson is regarded as the “Father of American Ornithology.” William Cooper shared his passion for birds with his son, James Cooper, who was ...

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.

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.

Advocates of this change believe that many English common names for birds are “isolating and demeaning reminders of oppression, slavery and genocide,” according to a petition in 2020 that was ...