"Last week, the American Ornithological Society said it would change the name of any bird whose name referenced a historical figure: Cooper’s Hawk, for example, or Townsend’s warbler. Birds will no longer be named after people but, instead, after each one’s physical traits or native habitats.
The change is intended to reflect the fact that some of those birds are named for people who owned slaves, supported the Confederacy or partook in anti-Indigenous campaigns. Bird names “deemed offensive and exclusionary” will also be changed."
I had no idea after whom these birds were named. Someone needs to grow up and stop looking for reasons to be offended.
If they think I'm going to stop calling the birds that frequent my yard Cooper's Hawks just to please their sense of outrage, they need to put down the crack pipe.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what they are going to do about Boobies. You know, the sea birds.
ReplyDeleteI'll just show myself out. :D