Show threadneville parkJul 30, 2025
@vagina_museum along the names of #BirdNamesForBirds: Vag Names for Vags
Felicity ShouldersMay 23, 2025

What a lovely bit of background on this bird! I will definitely think of it as a salmonberry thrush from now on. (#BirdNamesForBirds)

And I do think of it often: I’ve never seen one but I’ve listened, enraptured. My usual description is that it’s a bird you would have heard singing silvery and strange in the forests of Alderaan on a crisp morning when nothing ever seemed likely to go wrong. That touches the otherworldly quality, for me, and a certain tinge of melancholy.
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Erin Kissane (@[email protected])

The day I most look forward to the whole year is the day the first Salmonberry bird/Swainson’s thrush arrives in our woods, and this year that day was today. No one’s recording gets them quite right, it’s the most beautiful sound in the world. https://www.birdnote.org/podcasts/birdnote-daily/salmonberry-bird

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handmade ghostMar 5, 2025

The dauntless profile of the (so-called) "Say's" Phoebe ("cinnamon phoebe"?).

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Show threadIan RoseFeb 16, 2025

Every year, there is at least one common bird that I just don't see weirdly late into the new year. This year, the "where is it?" award goes to a bird with a brilliantly simple name. Also new today is a bird who is overdue for a simpler, less white-dude-infused name, like so many others. Spring is coming.

51) Red-winged Blackbird
52) Townsend's Warbler

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neville parkJan 16, 2025

i wholeheartedly support #BirdNamesForBirds but as a spider person i'm just like…

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Show threadhandmade ghostJan 10, 2025
@ianrosewrites Some local friends and I call them "chaparral wrens" because of where we find them here in Southern Oregon. #BirdNamesForBirds
Show threadIan RoseJan 10, 2025

A quick walk to get the mail gave me my first encounter of the year with our neighborhood dinosaur pack. Turkeys aren't native here, but they are pretty common, and for all their nuisances, I like having them around. Also my favorite little western wren, who deserves its new decolonized name yesterday.

25) Wild Turkey
26) Bewick's Wren

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Show threaddeer witchJan 3, 2025

New species at the feeder! A Stellar Jay, if I may say so.

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Show threadIan RoseJan 2, 2025

I took a 15-minute walk down my street in the rain (it's only getting heavier later) and mostly just got wet, but I did manage to add one to my year list, a beautiful bird that will hopefully get its new, decolonized name this year. Where are we on that, AOS?

6) Steller's Jay

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Ian RoseOct 3, 2024

No. We're not going back on the promise to decolonize and simplify bird names by removing these men's names from them. Townsend doesn't deserve his own warbler. Steller doesn't get to own a jay. No one does. I'm firmly on the side of #BirdNamesForBirds and I always will be, and I'm angry, but unsurprised, that the old men who run AOS are trying to backpedal.

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https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/03/birders-argue-over-plan-to-change-birds-named-after-people/

Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names

On Thursday, a major birding society will discuss how how to go about changing potentially offensive bird names. Theres resistance to the original plan to rename all birds named after people.

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