Efforts to change names of birds named after people divisive topic among ornithologists

It’s hard to escape the attention that the decision by the leadership of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) to change any bird name that was coined to honor a person to something more descriptive about its habitat or appearance. So a Cooper’s hawk or a LeConte’s sparrow will be called something else in the future, like Medium-Sized Bird-Snatcher or Streaked Little-Brown-Job.

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