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.
The Steller's jay, Cooper's hawk, and Wilson's warbler will all get renamed under a new plan to remove human names from U.S. and Canadian birds.The Steller's jay, Cooper's hawk, and Wilson's warbler will all get renamed under a new plan to remove human names from U.S. and Canadian birds.Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna's Hummingbird, Gambel's Quail, Lewis's Woodpecker, Bewick's Wren, Bullock's Oriole, and more.
The project will begin next year and initially focus on 70 to 80 bird species that occur primarily in the United States and Canada. That's about 6 or 7 percent of the total species in this geographic region. "There are birds in South America that were named for friends of mine," adds Kaufman."I would like to think that they would accept this, for the benefit that it brings."
They noted that a 2019 proposal to rename a small prairie bird that had previously been named for Confederate General John P. McCown had been rejected.In 2021, the society officially gave that bird the name"Thick-billed Longspur," after amending its naming guidelines to explicitly consider social justice reasons, says Handel.
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