But to date, few names taken from a language of Australia's First Peoples have been widely applied to birds. About 2,000 Australian bird species and subspecies occur in Australia and its territories.

Several bird species in the US and Canada will receive new names based on their habitats and traits rather than people's names, the American Ornithological Society has announced. After years of ...

Added Barker: "Why are we naming a bird species about one person in one point in time when these species have lived millions of years in the past? The name is frozen in time. In a sense ...

On Thursday, a major birding society will discuss how how to go about changing potentially offensive bird names. There's resistance to the... Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names ...

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.