Re: [cayugabirds-l] Not the birds please

[Maryfaith Miller]

This is a huge list, with lots of different people on it. It is so
unprofessional to use it to soapbox your personal political bent. I hope I
never read another email like that on here again.
Maryfaith

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021, 5:26 PM Carl Steckler  wrote:

> First it was statues, then military bases.
> Now the target of the woke crowd are birds.
> The American Ornithological Society is thinking about changing the names
> of some birds because they have a past that some call racist.
>
> Common people there is no room for political correctness in bird watching,
>
> Or did I just miss the memo?
>
> Please don’t let this hysteria ruin our hobby.
>
> There may be scientific reasons to change the name but unit for political
> reasons.
>
> Birding is and should be open and available to every person, period.
> What is next, ABA verses Audubon?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Not the birds please

[Robin Cisne]

What names are you referring to?  It's my understanding that what we used
to call an Oldsquaw is now properly called a Long-Tailed Duck.  Are there
other birds whose names are being changed?  The quotation below is from
Wikipedia, but similar commentaries are found in other references:

"The English word *squaw* is an ethnic and sexual slur
,[1]
[2]
[3]
 historically used
for Indigenous North American
 women.[4]
 Contemporary use
of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered offensive, derogatory
, misogynist
 and racist
.[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]


The word is not used among Native American
, First
Nations , Inuit
, or Métis
 peoples."


Surely ornithologists and amateur birders alike don't wish to perpetuate
ignorant and disparaging slurs.





On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 5:26 PM Carl Steckler  wrote:

> First it was statues, then military bases.
> Now the target of the woke crowd are birds.
> The American Ornithological Society is thinking about changing the names
> of some birds because they have a past that some call racist.
>
> Common people there is no room for political correctness in bird watching,
>
> Or did I just miss the memo?
>
> Please don’t let this hysteria ruin our hobby.
>
> There may be scientific reasons to change the name but unit for political
> reasons.
>
> Birding is and should be open and available to every person, period.
> What is next, ABA verses Audubon?
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[cayugabirds-l] Not the birds please

[Carl Steckler]

First it was statues, then military bases.
Now the target of the woke crowd are birds.
The American Ornithological Society is thinking about changing the names of
some birds because they have a past that some call racist.

Common people there is no room for political correctness in bird watching,

Or did I just miss the memo?

Please don’t let this hysteria ruin our hobby.

There may be scientific reasons to change the name but unit for political
reasons.

Birding is and should be open and available to every person, period.
What is next, ABA verses Audubon?

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