Stability for English Bird Names is a grassroots organization created in response to the AOS decision to change all eponymous bird names. Its mission is to increase public awareness about the impacts ...

Steller's jay, Cooper's hawk, Anna's hummingbird - all of these bird species and dozens more could get new names. That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English ...

(The Hill) — The American Ornithological Society (AOS) plans to change the names of all the bird species named after people, prioritizing those named after enslavers and prominent racists. In a news ...

Has a hunter in your family ever shot a bluebill? That's one of the folk names used for two species of ducks known officially as scaup, greater scaup and lesser scaup. The greater scaup is larger, as ...

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 said it is trying to address years of controversy over a list of bird names that include human names deemed offensive. Around 70 to 80 bird species will be renamed ...

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.

The American Ornithological Society announced this week that, next year, North American birds named for people will no longer be, as the society seeks to instead name the birds for themselves—and ...

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 ...