The Ornithological Society is renaming dozens of birds — and stopping giving them human names
This photograph supplied by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service exhibits a Wilson’s Warbler in Alaska. Birds in North America will not be named after people, the American Ornithological Society introduced Wednesday, November 1, 2023. In 2024, it would start renaming about 80 species present in the US and Canada. The birds to be renamed…