The name Aya has many different meanings, all over the world. However, if you look at the Hebrew meaning, Aya is a name linked to the “honey buzzard” and birds in general. (And if you’re wondering: it ...

Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the hellbender or the goblin shark? Typically, animals get their names from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Offensive bird names to be changed in the US and Canada Dozens of bird species will have their English names changed in an attempt ...

After years-long discussion, birds will no longer be named after people — a decision meant to dissociate the animals from problematic eponyms. The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday ...

After two years of discussion and debate, the nation’s premier birding organization has decided that birds should not have human names. The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday that it ...

The American Ornithological Society‘s announcement earlier this month that it will end the naming of bird species after people is a decision of refreshing clarity. Because after two years of ...

Although birds do indeed live in a world “without words,” humans pay careful (sometimes inordinate) attention to them. This month the American Ornithological Society announced that “in an effort to ...