The bird we call 'Turkey' faces an identity crisis, known as 'Hindi' in Turkey, adding to its global naming confusion.

A new study from BabyCenter has revealed the top baby naming trends of 2025, ranging from luxury names to bird-inspired ones. Baby naming trends can often reflect broader cultural shifts and social ...

Bird names derived from people, the society said in a statement, can be harmful, exclusive and detract from “the focus, appreciation or consideration of the birds themselves. ...

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 ...

Two members of Bird Names for Birds, Jess McLaughlin and Alex Holt, confirmed this history in library archives and helped bring it to the ornithological society’s attention, Rutter said. “It ...

Many birds sport names that come from White men with “objectively horrible pasts,” according to the group Bird Names for Birds, a grassroots initiative that has been advocating for this change.

According to BabyCenter, which gathers data in real time from hundreds of thousands of parents who register their babies’ ...

What do birds, loud luxury and ’90s nostalgia have in common? Apparently they’re playing into many parents’ baby name choices this year. According to a new report from BabyCenter, names that evoke ...

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 ...

Many Indigenous people in the tropics also have important ecological knowledge, and many common and scientific names of birds, for example, stem from traditional knowledge and beliefs. Some bird ...

The birds would get new names selected to highlight each bird’s key features. "Names have power and power can be for the good or it can be for the bad," society president Colleen Handel told NPR ...

There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name just a few. But we have little understanding of the holistic nature of ...