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Bird Names for Birds is a campaign to change the common names of American birds named after people, and to redress the recognition in ornithology of figures with racist or colonial pasts. Launched in June 2020 by ornithologists Jordan E. Rutter and Gabriel Foley with a public petition, in the midst of the George Floyd protests and in the ...
This includes changing all English-language names of birds within its geographic jurisdiction named directly after people or other names that are deemed “offensive and exclusionary”.
The group said it is committed to changing the names of birds to try and correct this within its geographic jurisdiction. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News.
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in ...
In 1886, Forest and Stream editor George Bird Grinnell was appalled by the negligent mass slaughter of birds that he saw taking place. [citation needed] As a boy, Grinnell had avidly read Ornithological Biography, [2] a work by the bird painter John James Audubon; he also lived in his early years in a development of the former Audubon estate, Audubon Park in upper Manhattan, and attended a ...
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The American Ornithological Society said after controversy that persisted for years, it will remove human names for bird species. US group will change list of bird names to correct offensive ...
The American Ornithological Society recently chose to rename some birds whose namesakes have questionable pasts. The decision has drawn controversy. Plan to remove eponymous names from some birds ...