Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday.…
“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” the organization’s president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. “Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” Santayana said. Those who erase it entirely will forget it ever happened.
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