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Dozens of bird names honoring enslavers and racists will be changed
Wash Post ^ | 11/1/2023

Posted on 11/01/2023 11:26:55 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

The American Ornithological Society says it will alter the names of North American birds named after humans, starting with up to 80 of them

After two years of discussion and debate, the nation’s premier birding organization has decided that birds should not have human names.

The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday that it will remove names given to North American birds in honor of people and replace them with monikers that better describe their plumage and other characteristics. The group said it will prioritize birds whose names trace to enslavers, white supremacists and robbers of Indigenous graves. Among them is one of the most famous birders in U.S. history, John James Audubon.

“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” the society’s president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. “We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves.”

Sometime next year, the society is expected to appoint a committee to explore up to 80 new names. The move, at an organization known for its reluctance to rename birds, was surprising even to the activists within the group who requested it after a White woman in Central Park falsely accused a Black birder of assault in 2020. In a racial reckoning that shook the field of ornithology, the activists, most of them White, argued that the names of some birds were offensive to people of color.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aos; audubon; birdbrains; birdnames; birdwatching; cancelculture; cancelled; colleenhandel; judithscarl; leftwingnuts; madness; ornithology; renaming; rewrite; waronbirds; waronhistory
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To: Altura Ct.
Maybe change "Robin" to "Latino in Blackface".


41 posted on 11/01/2023 12:19:17 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Altura Ct.

The left is trying to eradicate anything that connects us to our past and gives our culture identity.


42 posted on 11/01/2023 12:23:24 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Altura Ct.

This is STUPID!!!


43 posted on 11/01/2023 12:23:44 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: chopperk

“AOS is made up of morons. Where do these people come from?”

They have been around forever, they just weren’t as vocal. Why, you ask.

Many reasons, but one big one is “SHAME”. The absence of shame.

Used to be because of “shame” these morons would be afraid of being shamed by others for their goofy, abnormal ideas. So they would keep quiet.

Now, EVERYTHING is okay! EVERYTHING gets a pass. You can’t shame/ridicule ANYONE or you are that type of “phobe”.

They use “inclusive” as a club to keep you in line. How DARE you criticize my weird destructive, harmful to society, actions!

Can’t we all just get along?


44 posted on 11/01/2023 12:28:06 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Altura Ct.

Dear Lord, please make this crap stop!


45 posted on 11/01/2023 12:39:26 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Altura Ct.

There goes Foghorn Leghorn and any big rooster that is black, if you know what I mean.


46 posted on 11/01/2023 12:42:58 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: Altura Ct.

Thought it was the Bee


47 posted on 11/01/2023 12:48:49 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Altura Ct.
From Hitchcocks 1963 movie....The birds are not amused


48 posted on 11/01/2023 12:51:13 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Altura Ct.

This Blue Jay identifies as a Pink Jay, and wants you to stop stereotyping him, and to start referring to him by that Pink Jay name from now on.   He/she/it is also demanding that everyone address him/her properly in the future using the correct pronouns he/she/it has selected.   (He may look blue, but deep, down inside he feels pink.)


       

49 posted on 11/01/2023 12:57:32 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Altura Ct.

Doesn’t matter what you call them, the birds still won’t answer when you do.


50 posted on 11/01/2023 12:58:07 PM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Dogbert41

51 posted on 11/01/2023 12:58:10 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: granite

Robin?
= = =

It ain’t Robin if you are desparite for food (or cigs or beer).


52 posted on 11/01/2023 1:02:55 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Altura Ct.

They will always be gypsy moths to me.


53 posted on 11/01/2023 1:08:35 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Blennos

Insanity. And not the good kind.


Besides being stupid, the move is kind of pointless. Let’s say they rename the Baltimore Oriole to the Eastern Oriole. The first sentence in the bird’s description will read, “The Eastern Oriole, formerly called the Baltimore Oriole...”, so the original name will live on forever.


54 posted on 11/01/2023 1:17:41 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: All

Robinette = small Robin?


55 posted on 11/01/2023 1:19:12 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Altura Ct.

“ the activists, most of them White, argued that the names of some birds were offensive to people of color.”

Idiots. What do liberal white activists think is NOT offensive to “people of color”?


56 posted on 11/01/2023 1:20:06 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Chgogal
The country is run by rabidly stupid mental and moral midgets.
57 posted on 11/01/2023 1:22:08 PM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Some people have to much free time on their hands.

5.56mm


58 posted on 11/01/2023 1:23:18 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: fruser1; Rennes Templar

Maybe change "Rob-in" to "Dindunuff-in'"

59 posted on 11/01/2023 1:23:27 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Altura Ct.

The only issue i can see is that many state and federal laws and documents list the names of birds in terms or environmental protections and controls. If this Private organization wants to change names, I don’t think they have the right or the power to just do so and expect state and federal governments to just change a whole lot of legislations willy nilly just because some private group snaps their fingers!


60 posted on 11/01/2023 1:28:31 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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