Bird Names for Birds
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Bird Names for Birds
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Bird Names for Birds is a campaign to change the common names of American birds named after people, and to redress the recognition in ornithology of figures with racist or colonial pasts. Launched in June 2020 by ornithologists Jordan E. Rutter and Gabriel Foley with a public petition, in the midst of the George Floyd protests and in the aftermath of an incident in Central Park that paved the way to Black Birders Week, the movement emerged after several years of social activism by multiple Ameri
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Campaign to abandon eponyms in common names for birds
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Names_for_Birds
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2024-02-02T16:08:36Z
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