Bird Names Being Changed Over 'Racist' Ties Sparks Backlash

MSN.com ^ | November 2023 | Anna Skinner

[FlingWingFlyer]

Don’t forget the U.S. National bird. The penguin.

[From The Deer Stand]

The AOS is a bunch of cuckoo birds and no need to change that.

[Alas Babylon!]

Are Chimney Swifts anything like Taylor Swifts?

[americas.best.days...]

I thought deleting Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima took care of all this.

[Scrambler Bob]

Rename the Elements.

Hydrogen was named after a White guy.

And Helium (a male also: HE-lium)

And all the rest.

[EinNYC]

Here is a list of supposedly most of the birds named after people which will be renamed. I see plenty on the list which do not appear to be named for a person, so I don't know why they are on the list. A person's name is neither in their common name nor their binomial name, but here's a list compiled by a birdwatcher's organization.

Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) – named after Alexander Wilson
Audubon’s Warbler (Setophaga auduboni) – named after John James Audubon
Swainson’s Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii) – named after William Swainson
Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) – named after John Kirk Townsend
Bachman’s Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii) – named after John James Audubon and Reverend John Bachman
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) – named after Anna Blackburne
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) – named after Mark Catesby
Clark’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) – named after William Clark
Lawrence’s Goldfinch (Spinus lawrencei) – named after George Newbold Lawrence
Murphy’s Petrel (Pterodroma ultima) – named after Robert Cushman Murphy
Smith’s Longspur (Calcarius pictus) – named after Gustavus A. Smith
Pallas’s Gull (Larus ichthyaetus) – named after Peter Simon Pallas
Bonaparte’s Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) – named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) – named after John Kirk Townsend
Heermann’s Gull (Larus heermanni) – named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann
Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) – named after Johann Friedrich von Brandt
Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) – named after William Cooper
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) – named after Meriwether Lewis
Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) – named after Georg Wilhelm Steller
Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis) – named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) – named after Edward Harris
Baird’s Sparrow (Centronyx bairdii) – named after Spencer Fullerton Baird
Audubon’s Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) – named after John James Audubon
Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) – named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) – named after Marmaduke Tunstall
Hutton’s Vireo (Vireo huttoni) – named after William Rich Hutton
Black Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte atrata) – named after Jean Louis Cabanis
MacGillivray’s Warbler (Geothlypis tolmiei) – named after William MacGillivray
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma woodhouseii) – named after Samuel Washington Woodhouse
Hammond’s Flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) – named after William Alexander Hammond
Scott’s Oriole (Icterus parisorum) – named after William Henry Hudson
Townsend’s Bunting (Emberiza townsendi) – named after John Kirk Townsend
Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) – named after Thomas Say
Harris’s Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula) – named after Edward Harris
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) – named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Steller’s Eider (Polysticta stelleri) – named after Georg Wilhelm Steller
White-headed Woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus) – named after John James Audubon
Nuttall’s Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) – named after Thomas Nuttall
Brewer’s Sparrow (Spizella breweri) – named after Thomas Mayo Brewer
Cassin’s Finch (Haemorhous cassinii) – named after John Cassin
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) – named after William Swainson
Townsend’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma socorroensis) – named after John Kirk Townsend
McCall’s Longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii) – named after George Archibald McCall
Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) – named after David Douglas
Nuttall’s Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) – named after Thomas Nuttall
Franklin’s Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) – named after Sir John Franklin
McCown’s Longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii) – named after John Porter McCown
Least Tern (Sternula antillarum) – named after Alexander Wilson
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) – named after Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Forster’s Tern (Sterna forsteri) – named after Johann Reinhold Forster
Ross’s Goose (Anser rossii) – named after Bernard R. Ross LeConte’s Sparrow (Ammospiza leconteii) – named after John Lawrence LeConte
Townsend’s Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus townsendii) – named after John Kirk Townsend
Nelson’s Sparrow (Ammospiza nelsoni) – named after Edward William Nelson
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) – named after William Cooper
LeConte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei) – named after John Lawrence LeConte
Gambel’s Quail (Callipepla gambelii) – named after William Gambel
Lawrence’s Warbler (Setophaga lawrencii) – named after George Newbold Lawrence
Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) – named after William Swainson
Heermann’s Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys heermanni) – named after Adolphus Lewis Heermann
Beardless Tyrannulet (Camptostoma imberbe) – named after Isaac Sprague
Botteri’s Sparrow (Peucaea botterii) – named after Marquis Domenico Botteri
Cassin’s Kingbird (Tyrannus vociferans) – named after John Cassin
Couch’s Kingbird
(Tyrannus couchii) – named after Darius Nash Couch Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) – named after Charles Badham

These people put some non-bird species on the list. I haven't heard of non-bird species being renamed by these woketards. And, they left off a few birds that come to mind: Swainson's Hawk, Townsend's warbler

[Feckless]

...and yet the Democrat Party goes on as if it had nothing to do with Slavery, Racism, Jim Crow, or Segregation.

It’s time we called LibTaints on their selective outrage.

[MayflowerMadam]

Seeing the title, I thought it was the Babylon Bee.

[Flycatcher]

Thanks for that list. A good third of those don’t make any sense. And some don’t even exist: Nuttall’s Poorwill?!!

And why are so many birds on this list (such as Pinyon Jay, etal) that don’t have a human name attached to them? Makes no sense. And where’s Say’s Phoebe? And my favorite Catharus thrush: Swainson’s Thrush? Lunacy. Sheer unadulterated lunacy!

But thanks for posting this list. I need a drink…

[MayflowerMadam]

“When do we change the name of The White House?”

We already did. In January 2009 it became the White Hut

[ronnie raygun]

First they came for the statues.................... and if anyone thinks that the muzzies want just the jews dead think again

[Flycatcher]

Just reread the list. Sadly, they got your Townsend’s Warbler on it, near the top. I also noticed they have Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay. What’s funny is that this bird was only recently named Woodhouse’s. Formerly, it was known as the Western Scrub Jay. Then (only quite recently as I say) they split the species in two: the western race is now the California Scrub Jay, and the eastern interior race is Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay. Now these morons are thinking about renaming again.

I need another drink…

[Daveinyork]

They may have a point. After all there is a bird named wood pecker.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

These nanny staters sound like him;

https://youtu.be/VvpK998H6Kk?t=113

[JoJo354]

Just stop it AOS! Just stop! We don’t buy into your racist mindset so leave the bird names alone and leave us alone! You are the problem, not the bird names or who named them or who they are named after!

[Verginius Rufus]

Heermann’s Kangaroo Rat is a bird?