The name peregrine means “wanderer,” a proper name given they can travel over 15,000 miles in one year. ... The bald eagle is ...

An exhaustive list of species that may get re-dubbed was published by Bird Names for Birds, an organization seeking to change many English common bird names (i.e., not their scientific names).

It is a book purely for reference, consisting of a systematic list of all known birds, with the authorities for the names used and the distribution of each form.

In 2020, the American Ornithological Society dubbed this bird, formerly named for a Confederate general, the “thick-billed longspur." Skip Russell via Flickr> under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Starting ...