Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the ...

Where birds get their names. The names that we call birds are common and complex. By Jim Williams, Contributing writer. August 27, 2019 at 5:58PM.

These name changes however aren't arbitrary. When Europeans invaded the New World they usually assumed they were seeing all new bird species and so of course they gave them new names. Many years later ...

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 ...

She says people have pointed out to her that the birds don't care what their names are. "Names are important for humans. And this is absolutely a human-driven exercise," she says.

If you are among the many who struggle to learn bird songs, start with those species that actually identify themselves; they say their own names. For this we can thank early ornithologists who ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more ...

Male birds, meanwhile, often sport little bird jackets embroidered with their names. Eavesdrop on bird conversations. Sure, you don’t actually speak Bird, but that doesn’t mean you can’t ...

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 ...

Words for birds: Investigating birds and their names with Indigenous people in Amazonia. ... Some bird names still used today are derived from Indigenous languages that are no longer spoken or known.