Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million Indigenous people around the world directly depend on tropical forests for survival, ...

The Steller’s Jay—and dozens more—could get a new name soon under a controversial proposal by the American Ornithological Society to re-name all birds named after people. Say goodbye to Bachman’s ...

Adding pressure to change eponyms was the website Bird Names for Birds, which criticizes proper names as "problematic because they perpetuate colonialism and the racism associated with it." It brings ...

Steller's jay, Cooper's hawk, Anna's hummingbird - all of these bird species and dozens more could get new names. That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English ...

(McCown's name will remain, however, in the bird's scientific name, which won't change — Rhynchophanes mccownii). Adding pressure to change eponyms was the website Bird Names for Birds, which ...

Say goodbye to Bachman’s Sparrow, Scott’s Oriole and Townsend’s Warbler. Those three birds are among a half-dozen that will get renamed first under a plan by the American Ornithological Society to do ...