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- birding@lemmy.world
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- birding@lemmy.world
The yellow-bellied sapsucker, however, will not be renamed, as white people are not an oppressed group.
Underrated joke.
Audubon was a bird-murdering slave-owning prick and should be remembered as such
There is a strong contingent within members of the Audubon Society to rename it.
I got to help preserve some of his birds in a zoology museum I worked at. It was pretty cool. At least they are used for education now. I had to wrap and freeze them because carpet beetles are little bitches. That museum was wild.
I think it’s always good to see such things enacted, and it’s rarely done on such a broad scale. Common names are a big bucket of chaos for joe schmoe anyway*, so I’m all in favor of adopting anything more descriptive or in relation to field marks. I feel that the changes being broadcast so publicly will lead curious people to learn more about the history of birding, too- and hopefully lead to understanding why this sort of thing matters.
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Often broad species names, even. I’ve found that the general public has no idea of the difference between a mouse, mole, vole or shrew, and has even less of an idea that there are multiple species of all of them.Stupid
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ffs
This is the dumbest shit.
I don’t know, man, look at your username…
Biologists and science communicators are being conscientious and thoughtful about the history of their professions. “The dumbest shit” indeed.