08-01: Inside the Bird Name Committee
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The decision by the American Ornithological Society last year to begin the process of renaming birds currently named after humans has been one of the more animating debates in the birding and ornithological communities in recent memory. The recommendations for these changes were made by an ad hoc English Bird Name committee created by the AOS specifically to explore this issue. Irene Liu, Steve Hampton, and Alvaro Jaramillo served on that committee, and join the podcast to talk about their time on the committee, the discussion they had, and to dispell some of the misinformation that has sprung up in the wake of this big news.
Also, welcome to the the 2024 ABA Bird of the Year, Golden-winged Warbler!
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| 0:42.3 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:46.6 | I'm Nate Swick. |
| 0:47.8 | Happy New Year list. |
| 0:49.4 | My first bird of 2024 was one of my neighborhood eastern bluebirds hawking emerging insects on the neighbor's lawn |
| 0:56.6 | a new first of the year for me hopefully that will bring good tidings for 2024 and of course |
| 1:02.3 | our new bird of the year is here we announced that this week the 2024 aBA bird of the year |
| 1:09.6 | is golden winged warbler. |
| 1:13.2 | Good luck to you if you can find a golden-winged warbler in the ABA area right now, |
| 1:18.2 | but by the end of April, they'll be here, |
| 1:20.3 | and we'll be ready to celebrate the new bird of the year with them. |
| 1:23.5 | But that will be the subject of next week's episode. |
| 1:26.9 | We'll have Bird of the year artist Nataja |
| 1:28.4 | Fontaine with us then this week. I'm happy to bring you a conversation that I had at the end |
| 1:34.1 | of last year with three members of the American Ornithological Society's ad hoc English |
| 1:39.1 | bird name committee about their recent recommendations to change eponymous English language bird names in the |
| 1:45.8 | Americas. Those recommendations were accepted by the AOS Leadership Council back in November, |
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