Tag: Bird Renaming Week - Page 2

Birding

I’m not seeing spots: Towhee issues

June 25, 2019 by Paul Lewis 2 Comments

When you bird in Latin America, you quickly realize how America-centric English-language bird names are. Consider, for example, the Summer Tanager. This is an...

Birds

Red-bellied Woodpecker

June 24, 2019 by a Guest 2 Comments

Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. He’s been working as...

Birding

Cory’s Shearwater is Misspelled

by Corey 4 Comments

Cory’s Shearwater is missing a letter. One little “e” is absent from the name and it has been driving me crazy ever since I...

Politics

Rename All Birds Named After White People

June 23, 2019 by a Guest 20 Comments

Zach Schwartz-Weinstein is a writer, teacher, organizer, and birdwatcher who lives in upstate New York. The ornithological practice of naming species after dead white...