Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Birders participate in the Christmas Bird Count on Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2017. Carolyn Van ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more useful, ...

Dozens of bird species will have their English names changed in an attempt to avoid associations with “historic bias” and exclusionary practices, The American Ornithological Society(AOS) has now ...

Last November, the American Ornithological Society, or AOS, announced that it would change the common names of all American birds named after people. There are 152 such “eponymic” names (that is, ...

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 Wednesday ...

To J. Drew Lanham, a conservation and cultural ornithologist at Clemson University and a lifelong birder, the little brown bird officially called Bachman’s Sparrow has long been the pinewoods sparrow.

“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” Colleen Handel, the organization’s president, said Wednesday ...

The bird name game continues. In winter, Berkshire birders delight in catching sight of small gulls sweeping over our lakes and ponds. Bonies! Bonaparte’s gulls have arrived. How long will this ...

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