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 ...

Some birds are about to get new names. And no, we aren't talking pets, parrots at a zoo, or cartoon characters like Woody Woodpecker. Think the Cooper’s hawk, Townsend’s warbler and Bachman ...

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.

Dozens of bird species in the United States and Canada will get "imaginative" new names that reflect their traits and habitats rather than the names of people, the American Ornithological Society ...

The names of Lewis and Clark will soon be stripped from the birds, along with every other bird name bestowed in honor of a person. The American Ornithological Society announced its ongoing bird ...

Any bird named for a human being will get a new name, whether that person was a racist or not. Though this change didn’t prevent outrage from erupting online in certain predictable quarters, ...

Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the ...

After compiling a database of nearly 11,000 birds' names, the researchers found that a majority—nearly 90%—are named after biological or other characteristics and a very small percentage—11% ...

An oft-repeated claim is that by changing these names, ornithological history and the people who these birds were named after would be the latest victims of activist erasure.

Jordan Rutter, a founder of Bird Names For Birds, said the petition was inspired by what became a momentous encounter in Central Park in 2020, when a white woman falsely reported to police that ...