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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I really despise these people.
Bird-Brains are not geniuses.
Insanity. And not the good kind.
What bird brains!
So sick. There are no problems in the world, no diseases to conquer, no...the names of BIRDS that most people don’t even know, THOSE are a problem. This is the sickness of libtards and their freaking virtue signalling. No amount of “virtue signalling” will make these evil scum VIRTUOUS!
F’n REDICKULOUS!
I guess that’s about it for Heckle and Jeckal.
Can you say total waste of time?
ROTFL! The birdbrains have hard peckers about those nasty “enslavers.” What a bunch of friggin’ clowns. Have they asked the birds if they want their names changed? Some people have nothing to do with their lives so they become annoying pains in the ass.
Robin?
Will we see the bird known as the Baltimore Oriole renamed?
Was Lord Baltimore some kind of a racist or sexist, or in some other way , did not have a 21st century politically correct worldview? If so, the name has got to go.
What will they name the Crow?
Any non-paywall access?
The word “post” has a very racist history, better change it.
The country is run by rabidly stupid mental midgets.
Because rabidly stupid mental midgets vote for them.
And oh by the way, paywalls are racist. Why can’t the poor read your paper too?
This has to be a joke...This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard.....
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