Last month, I wrote about the common names of birds, and the planned changes to some of those names. In the past, I’ve written about the folk names of birds. But there are also the scientific names of ...

The American Ornithological Society announced this week that, next year, North American birds named for people will no longer be, as the society seeks to instead name the birds for themselves—and ...

This winter, tens of thousands of birders will survey winter bird populations for the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, part of an international bird census, powered by volunteers, that ...

Say goodbye to the Cooper’s hawk, Wilson’s warbler, Lincoln’s sparrow and dozens of other North American birds. The birds themselves will still be here. But their names are going the way of the dodo.

Bird names had been criticized before, but this race-conscious time seemed to lead to more action: A prairie songbird formerly known as McCown's longspur was changed to thick-billed longspur. The ...

prō-ˈthä-nə-ˌter-ē or prō-thə-ˈnō-tə-rē When I first started learning about birds, I think I completely botched the pronunciation of prothonotary warbler. To be honest, I’m still not great at spelling ...

Do parrots actually use names the way humans do? A new study analyzing hundreds of captive parrots reveals surprisingly ...

A new study published in PLOS One found that many parrots can learn and appropriately use names to identify humans and other ...