Steller's jay, Cooper's hawk, Anna's hummingbird - all of these bird species and dozens more could get new names. That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English ...

The names of our Eastern sparrows, all nondescript little brown birds, are descriptive. Chipping sparrows chip, song sparrows sing, field sparrows are found in fields, swamp sparrows in swamps, ...

You might not expect bird names to be a controversial or even newsworthy issue, but in recent years, they’ve become just that. A large number of bird species take their English names from people, ...