Ian Rose on Nostr: No. We're not going back on the promise to decolonize and simplify bird names by ...

No. We're not going back on the promise to decolonize and simplify bird names by removing these men's names from them. Townsend doesn't deserve his own warbler. Steller doesn't get to own a jay. No one does. I'm firmly on the side of #BirdNamesForBirds and I always will be, and I'm angry, but unsurprised, that the old men who run AOS are trying to backpedal.

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https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/03/birders-argue-over-plan-to-change-birds-named-after-people/