The bird name change will include the removal of controversial figures, some with racist ties.
The Wilson's warbler is among the birds that will be renamed by the American Ornithological Society.Several bird species in the US and Canada will receive new names based on their habitats and traits rather than people's names, the American Ornithological Society has announced.
"Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don't work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs," the society's CEO, Judith Scarl, said in a statement. In 2020, the American Ornithological Society renamed a bird named after a Confederate Army general, John P McCown, as the thick-billed longspur."This committee will broaden participation by including a diverse representation of individuals with expertise in the social sciences, communications, ornithology, and taxonomy," the AOS said in its statement.The organisation said these "momentous decisions" were made to change harmful and exclusionary English bird names.
James John Audubon, a famous American naturalist and wildlife illustrator, also owned slaves and held "harmful attitudes toward Black and Indigenous people", the NAS has acknowledged.
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