Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may be like, “Bird names? Seriously?” But hear us out: there are so many bird baby names, and they’re all so unique and ...

The English Bird Names project removes English common names from birds common to the United States and Canada. “As scientists, we work to eliminate bias in science. But there has been historic bias in ...

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 ...

The cadence of a songbird’s daily life, of its moment-to-moment motions, are generally faster than we can follow. The speed at which they hop from place to place, flap their wings, peck at bugs and ...

Bird names had been criticized before, but this race-conscious time seemed to lead to more action: A prairie songbird formerly known as McCown's longspur was changed to thick-billed longspur. The ...

You might not expect bird names to be a controversial or even newsworthy issue, but in recent years, they’ve become just that. A large number of bird species take their English names from people, ...

A new study from BabyCenter has revealed the top baby naming trends of 2025, ranging from luxury names to bird-inspired ones. Baby naming trends can often reflect broader cultural shifts and social ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

The American Ornithological Society‘s announcement earlier this month that it will end the naming of bird species after people is a decision of refreshing clarity. Because after two years of ...

Bird names had been criticized before, but this race-conscious time seemed to lead to more action: A prairie songbird formerly known as McCown's longspur was changed to thick-billed longspur. The ...