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A Cooper's Hawk perches on a utility line. This is one of the many birds that will receive a new name. The American Ornithological Society announced it is renaming all birds named after people ...
The world's largest group of ornithologists announced Nov. 1 that it would begin work renaming 70 to 80 North American bird species named for people — some deemed racist, exclusionary, or ...
The American Ornithological Society said it is trying to address years of controversy over a list of bird names that include human names deemed offensive. Around 70 to 80 bird species will be ...
Male birds have two Z chromosomes (ZZ), and female birds have a W chromosome and a Z chromosome (WZ). [77] A complex system of disassortative mating with two morphs is involved in the white-throated sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis , where white- and tan-browed morphs of opposite sex pair, making it appear as if four sexes were involved since any ...
The common name comes from the call of the familiar pied currawong of eastern Australia and is onomatopoeic. They were formerly known as crow-shrikes or bell-magpies . Despite their resemblance to crows and ravens, they are only distantly related to the corvidae , instead belonging to an Afro-Asian radiation of birds of superfamily Malaconotoidea .
The original English name for this bird, dating back to at least 1465, is the ree, perhaps derived from a dialectical term meaning "frenzied"; [8] a later name reeve, which is still used for the female, is of unknown origin, but may be derived from the shire-reeve, a feudal officer, likening the male's flamboyant plumage to the official's robes.
Our backyard is like a Sheetz for migrating birds. Probably because we spend more on birdseed than most families do on sending their kids to a Triangle university. The birds are back and the ...
They are the only bird species that mates face to face, [11] in comparison to the more conventional copulation style for birds where the male mounts the female's back. [12] Stitchbird have some of the highest levels of extra-pair paternity of any bird with up to 79% of the chicks in the nest sired by other males, possibly as a result of forced ...