Last month, I wrote about the common names of birds, and the planned changes to some of those names. In the past, I’ve written about the folk names of birds. But there are also the scientific names of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Ornithological Society, the worldwide birding organization that standardizes bird names across the Americas, will ...

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 ...

OPINION: During the pandemic lockdown, I learned about the ways race and racism permeate every inch of our society, even birding. The American Ornithological Society has decided to rectify that ...

You might not expect bird names to be a controversial or even newsworthy issue, but in recent years, they’ve become just that. A large number of bird species take their English names from people, ...

In 2020, the American Ornithological Society dubbed this bird, formerly named for a Confederate general, the “thick-billed longspur." Skip Russell via Flickr> under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Starting next ...

The American Ornithological Society‘s announcement earlier this month that it will end the naming of bird species after people is a decision of refreshing clarity. Because after two years of ...

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) announced on Nov. 1 plans to rename all North American birds named after the researchers who documented them. The new names, while not decided, will make it ...

Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names from a ...

The culture wars have come home to roost in Utah after the Legislature passed a bill forbidding state wildlife officials from following the American Ornithological Society’s effort to find new names ...