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Townsend’s warbler

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Grappling with the racist past preserved in birds’ names

June 9, 2021

Biologists and conservationists are struggling with the legacy borne by birds’ names. It’s not just the McCown’s longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii), which last year became the thick-billed longspur after the American Ornithological Society agreed to shed …

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