MANAGEMENT AREA, MIDDLE CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA IS A BEAUTIFUL SPOT, BUT NOT EXACTLY A TROPICAL PARADISE. BUT THEN AGAIN, MAYBE IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A VISITOR. WE’RE ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING. THAT VISITOR WAS A TROPICAL BIRD KNOWN AS A LIMPKIN. HE WAS WAITING RIGHT OUT IN THERE RIGHT JUST OUT TOWARDS THOSE COUPLE STUMPS YOU CAN SEE IN THE WATER OUT THERE, EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST BRIAN COLETTE SAYS HE’S NOT SURPRISED. THE FIRST EVER LIMPKIN SPOTTED IN PENNSYLVANIA CHOSE MIDDLE CREEK TO SPEND SOME TIME IN GOOD HABITAT. A GOOD FOOD SOURCE FOR HIM, A GREAT PLACE TO STOP OVER A LOT OF OTHER BIRDS AROUND THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MAKE HIM FEEL COMFORTABLE HERE. SPECIALIZED BENDED BEAK TO HELP OPEN THEM. THIS GUY APPARENTLY FOUND SOME PRETTY GOOD EATING HERE AT THE LAKE. SOME OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHERS IS NOW FOCUSING THEIR LONG LENSES ON HUMMINGBIRDS. WE’RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET SOME IMAGES OF THE BIG BIRD. IT WAS REALLY NEAT BECAUSE, I MEAN, I’VE NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE. IN FACT, I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT WAS UNTIL SOMEBODY TOLD ME IT WAS JUST SOMETHING REALLY KIND OF SPECIAL TO SEE. YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO BE UP HERE TO SEE HIM UP HERE OR, YOU KNOW, HE’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. IT’S JUST AMAZING TO TO SEE HIM AND HOPE HE COMES BACK. DAVID SICK WAS HOPING SO, TOO. HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW BIRDERS STILL LOOKING FOR THE NOW ELUSIVE BIRD. THERE’S A NICE, GREAT BLUE HERON OVER THERE, I THINK, BUT NO LIMPKIN MAYBE THE LIMPKIN JUST GOT TIRED OF POSING FOR SO MANY PHOTOS IN LANCASTE
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Ornithological society to rename dozens of birds — and stop naming them after people
Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the US and Canada
(Video above contains related coverage)Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday.Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada."There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today," the organization's president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. "Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely."Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all such birds will be renamed, the organization announced.Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson's warbler and Wilson's snipe, both named after the 19th-century naturalist Alexander Wilson. Audubon's shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.In 2020, the organization renamed a bird once referring to a Confederate Army general, John P. McCown, as the thick-billed longspur."I'm really happy and excited about the announcement," said Emily Williams, an ornithologist at Georgetown University who was not involved in the decision.She said heated discussions over bird names have been happening within birdwatching communities for the past several years."Naming birds based on habitat or appearance is one of the least problematic approaches," she said.Earlier this year, the National Audubon Society announced that it would retain its name, even as critics and some voices within the organization have argued that it should dump the association with a man, John James Audubon, whose family owned slaves."The name has come to represent so much more than the work of one person," Susan Bell, the chair of the National Audubon Society's Board of Directors, told Audubon magazine in March, adding, "We must reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon."A 2020 encounter in New York's Central Park served as a public wake-up call about the discrimination that Black people sometimes face when trying to enjoy the outdoors.Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher, was looking for birds when he asked a white woman, Amy Cooper, to follow local rules and leash her dog. Cooper called 911 and was later charged with filing a false police report, though the charges were later dropped.Soon after, a collective of birdwatchers organized the first Black Birders Week to increase the visibility of Black nature lovers and scientists.And a group called Bird Names for Birds sent a petition to the ornithological society urging it to "outline a plan to change harmful common names" of birds.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
(Video above contains related coverage)
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday.
Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada.
"There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today," the organization's president, Colleen Handel, said in a statement. "Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely."
Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all such birds will be renamed, the organization announced.
Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson's warbler and Wilson's snipe, both named after the 19th-century naturalist Alexander Wilson. Audubon's shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name.
In 2020, the organization renamed a bird once referring to a Confederate Army general, John P. McCown, as the thick-billed longspur.
"I'm really happy and excited about the announcement," said Emily Williams, an ornithologist at Georgetown University who was not involved in the decision.
She said heated discussions over bird names have been happening within birdwatching communities for the past several years.
"Naming birds based on habitat or appearance is one of the least problematic approaches," she said.
Earlier this year, the National Audubon Society announced that it would retain its name, even as critics and some voices within the organization have argued that it should dump the association with a man, John James Audubon, whose family owned slaves.
"The name has come to represent so much more than the work of one person," Susan Bell, the chair of the National Audubon Society's Board of Directors, told Audubon magazine in March, adding, "We must reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon."
A 2020 encounter in New York's Central Park served as a public wake-up call about the discrimination that Black people sometimes face when trying to enjoy the outdoors.
Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher, was looking for birds when he asked a white woman, Amy Cooper, to follow local rules and leash her dog. Cooper called 911 and was later charged with filing a false police report, though the charges were later dropped.
Soon after, a collective of birdwatchers organized the first Black Birders Week to increase the visibility of Black nature lovers and scientists.
And a group called Bird Names for Birds sent a petition to the ornithological society urging it to "outline a plan to change harmful common names" of birds.
___
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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