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 ...

A bird named after former President Barack Obama will keep its name despite a widespread effort to rename dozens of birds eponymous with people. The American Ornithology Society (AOS) said on ...

You might not expect bird names to be a controversial or even newsworthy issue, but in recent years, they’ve become just that. A large number of bird species take their English names from people, ...

Babycenter discovered that for Generation Beta (those born in 2025-2039), there is a huge name trend already: with bird baby names. Now, we already know that nature names have been all the rage in the ...

The English Bird Names project removes English common names from birds common to the United States and Canada. “As scientists, we work to eliminate bias in science. But there has been historic bias in ...

The American Ornithological Society will remove people’s names from birds. Many of those birds are now named after prominent Philadelphia scientists. In ''American Ornithology,'' Alexander Wilson ...

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.

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...