Picking a pet name is serious business — regardless of if it's a pet bird, cat, dog, or other animal. Your family might hold a vote to select the name of your new crew member, or you might brainstorm ...

You might not expect bird names to be a controversial or even newsworthy issue, but in recent years, they’ve become just that. A large number of bird species take their English names from people, ...

1. Bird Pictures: Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher “Springtime is exciting after a long, cold Ohio winter. Migrants are in their best ...

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. For ...

The culture wars have come home to roost in Utah after the Legislature passed a bill forbidding state wildlife officials from following the American Ornithological Society’s effort to find new names ...