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Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am Nate Swick.

We haven't talked much about bird names for birds here lately, that movement to change honorific eponyms, birds named after people in the birding

world. It is still ongoing, though we have sort of entered a protracted weight and sea phase.

There has been some movement to that end, and I sort of want to update people with how things are

going. When we last left this ornithological soap opera, the North American Classification Committee

of the American Ornithological Society, which, as you may or may not know, is the body responsible

for changing bird names, changing bird common names, they sort of put off indefinitely

deciding any of the many, many name change proposals that they received

late last year. I can tell you that there were a lot, a fallout of bird name proposals, if you

will, and not the colloquial incorrect use of the term, but a legitimate sort of high island squall

line fallout of bird name change proposals the aOS

diversity and inclusion committee has spent several months speaking to various stakeholders in the

bird name issue including the american birding association and they slash we are coming together

next week april 16th for a community Congress that will

be public, I assume, for those interested, it will be at 145 p.m. Eastern Time. I will include

the link in the next episode. I don't have it now. I hope to have it by then. So consider this

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