A new atlas catalogs nearly 11,000 bird names, revealing their origins, meanings, and the surprising stories behind how birds ...

Ornithologists are working to eliminate bias in bird names, Birda, a global birdwatching app, details their experiences in South Africa to broaden the adoption of inclusive bird classifications ...

BirdLife South Africa, a bird conservation organisation, is working on compiling a list of bird names in isiZulu. They are also working towards having more lists in other official South African ...

With increased recording of Indigenous names, any South African would be able to open ... Has this been done for other groups of animals or plants? Birds and plants are two groups that have ...

The size of the wattled crane population in KwaZulu-Natal – fewer than 400 birds – makes it incredibly vulnerable to catastrophic events, such as disease. This would put the species at risk of ...

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer.

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more ...