On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Some bird names no longer fly. Host James Brown speaks with Indianapolis Star investigative reporter Sarah Bowman about the group behind this effort, Bird ...

Cooper’s hawk (upper left), Harris’ sparrow (upper right), LeConte’s sparrow (lower left) and Wilson’s warbler (lower right) are all examples of birds that will be renamed by the American ...

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The world's largest group of ornithologists announced Nov. 1 that it would begin work renaming 70 to 80 North American bird species named for people — some deemed racist, exclusionary, or implying ...

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 ...

Although birds do indeed live in a world “without words,” humans pay careful (sometimes inordinate) attention to them. This month the American Ornithological Society announced that “in an effort to ...

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 ...

For some reason, known only to the wokest of the woke and the absurdly radical of radicals, it’s been decided that bird names are inherently racist and must be changed. Apparently, some of these names ...

This winter, tens of thousands of birders will survey winter bird populations for the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, part of an international bird census, powered by volunteers, that ...

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 world's largest group of ornithologists announced Nov. 1 that it would begin work renaming 70 to 80 North American bird species named for people — some deemed racist, exclusionary, or implying ...