The American Ornithological Society just renamed the McCown’s Longspur as the Thick-billed Longspur and faces pressure to reevaluate other names. “You shouldn’t just put an apostrophe and call it your bird – that’s not how this should be working.”
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The American Ornithological Society just renamed the McCown’s Longspur as the Thick-billed Longspur and faces pressure to reevaluate other names. “You shouldn’t just put an apostrophe and call it your bird – that’s not how this should be working.”
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