Tue.Sep 08, 2020

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What are the Costs of Changing Bird Names?

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The birding world has been debating whether honorific common bird names ( e.g. , Clark’s Nutcracker or Baird’s Sandpiper ) should be changed. The broad arguments are that many of the namesakes have associations with views that are now unacceptable ( e.g. , support for slavery) or that the time for honorific names has passed, if it ever existed.

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