Last November, the American Ornithological Society, or AOS, announced that it would change the common names of all American birds named after people. There are 152 such “eponymic” names (that is, ...

Dozens of bird species will have their English names changed in an attempt to avoid associations with “historic bias” and exclusionary practices, The American Ornithological Society(AOS) has now ...

After years-long discussion, birds will no longer be named after people — a decision meant to dissociate the animals from problematic eponyms. The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday ...

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(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 ...

“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” Colleen Handel, the organization’s president, said Wednesday ...