This change, which will affect some 150 North American birds, has been a long time coming. Ornithologists and amateur birders alike have long wrestled with the historical nature of bird names ...

There are about 10,0000 bird species in the world, about 2,000 of which live in North America. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors and personalities. Northern Cardinals, Bald Eagles, American ...

According to a new study from the National Audubon Society, a nonprofit environmental group dedicated to wildlife conservation, nearly two-thirds of the North American bird population is facing ...

Bird names. Bird Names for Birds is a grassroots initiative aiming to change eponymous common names of birds, specifically in North America, arguing that many have been named after problematic people.

In 2020, the American Ornithological Society dubbed this bird, formerly named for a Confederate general, the “thick-billed longspur." Skip Russell via Flickr> under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Starting ...

As part of Bird for Bird Names' renaming request, it began a public petition that collected more than 2,500 signatures, Rutter said. These efforts also have support from groups such as the Audubon ...

Our bird populations are dying off. Here's how we can save them. North America's bird populations have declined 29% in the past 50 years, but the news isn't all bad.

The mass disappearance of North American birds is a dire warning about the planet’s well-being. Sept. 19, 2019. A flock of red-winged blackbirds over Long Island, ...

But new research published Thursday in Science shows bird populations have continued to plummet in the past five decades, dropping by nearly three billion across North America—an overall decline ...