The powers that be recently decided to change the common names of birds to descriptions instead of names. Thick-billed Longspur instead of McCown's Longspur as one example of the many birds named after confederate fucking generals.
They agreed the names made it hard to identify the actual species based on appearance, plus the amount of species named after terrible racists (Audubon included) was incredibly high.
I'd rather we use the indigenous name for the birds, but removing references to colonizers from their names is a good start.
The powers that be recently decided to change the common names of birds to descriptions instead of names. Thick-billed Longspur instead of McCown's Longspur as one example of the many birds named after confederate fucking generals.
They agreed the names made it hard to identify the actual species based on appearance, plus the amount of species named after terrible racists (Audubon included) was incredibly high.
I'd rather we use the indigenous name for the birds, but removing references to colonizers from their names is a good start.