Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names from a ...

Some 144 bird species had not been seen in at least a decade, but a project by conservation organizations proposes they all may still be hidden somewhere in the wild. Clockwise from top left: Santa ...

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 next ...

The American Ornithological Society, the worldwide birding organization that standardizes bird names across the Americas, will rename all species of birds that have been named after people, the group ...

The culture wars have come home to roost in Utah after the Legislature passed a bill forbidding state wildlife officials from following the American Ornithological Society’s effort to find new names ...

The American Ornithological Society said it is trying to address years of controversy over a list of bird names that include human names deemed offensive. Around 70 to 80 bird species will be renamed ...

Dozens of bird species will have their English names changed in an attempt to avoid associations with “historic bias” and exclusionary practices, The American Ornithological Society(AOS) has now ...

Birds that sing at night: Most birds stop singing when the sun goes down, but for some, the concert is just starting. Hearing birds sing at night is an interesting and growing experience. We usually ...