Last month, I wrote about the common names of birds, and the planned changes to some of those names. In the past, I’ve written about the folk names of birds. But there are also the scientific names of ...

Rows of orioles, buntings and other birds line a table during the Laboratory in Biology & Conservation of Wild Birds class. (Malia Reiss/UC Davis) I was a plant girl. As an undergraduate student at UC ...

Say goodbye to the Cooper’s hawk, Wilson’s warbler, Lincoln’s sparrow and dozens of other North American birds. The birds themselves will still be here. But their names are going the way of the dodo.

The American Ornithological Society has committed to replacing all bird names derived from people so as not to honor figures with racist pasts. By Katrina Miller The American Ornithological Society, ...

That Wilson's warbler you might have spotted out your kitchen window? You'll soon have to learn a new name for it. While the project was initiated in part "to address past wrongs" over links to ...

Sports team mascots, school names, street titles — the country finds itself in the midst of a reckoning, an effort to confront its past and chart a more accepting course for the future. One of the ...

Over the last month, a change.org petition has been making the rounds calling for the American Ornithological Society to halt its recently announced commitment to change all English-language names of ...

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 ...