The animals’ new names will refer to—surprise—the animals themselves, and that’s good!
Say ‘see ya’ to Scott’s oriole, a black and yellow bird native to the Southwestern U.S. The bird isn’t going anywhere—but its moniker is to be nixed, along with the terms for many other birds named for individuals with less-than-illustrious histories.
“Exclusionary naming conventions developed in the 1800s, clouded by racism and misogyny, don’t work for us today, and the time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs.” Naturalism in North America went hand-in-hand with colonialism, as Western scientists went about classifying and taxonomizing creatures across the continent over the last couple of centuries.
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