June 4, 2021 04:57 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22518931/racist-bird-names-black-birders-washington-post
Go read this story about why its time to scrap racist bird names
Some 150 birds named for people tied to slavery and white supremacy could eventually get new monikers as part of an ongoing reckoning with racism within the world of birding. That includes Jameson’s firefinch, named for a British naturalist who bought a young girl while in Africa “as a joke” and then drew pictures of her being brutally killed. In a new story this week, Washington Post reporter Darryl Fears breaks down the horrific history of ornithology that has managed to be scrubbed clean in many history books.
Fears also writes about the names these birds already had, given to them by Indigenous peoples who understood the animals long...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22518931/racist-bird-names-black-birders-washington-post
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