shifting away from honorific names. Around 150 of roughly 2,000 North and Central American bird species have honorifics, meaning that they were named in recognition of the mostly white, male ...

only the white leader would get anything named after him — and it would be usually a male." There's also the issue of birds being named for people who enslaved other people or names which are ...

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 ...

Say goodbye to Bachman's Sparrow, Scott's Oriole and Townsend's Warbler. Those three birds are among a half-dozen that will get renamed first under a plan by the American Ornithological Society to ...