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Birds in North America will no longer be named after people. The American Ornithological Society announced the move Wednesday. 

北美的鸟类将不再以人的名字命名。美国鸟类学会周三宣布了这一举措。

Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 birds found in the United States and Canada. 

明年，该组织将开始重新命名在美国和加拿大发现的约 80 种鸟类。

Colleen Handel is the organization’s president. She said: “There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today.” 

科琳·汉德尔是该组织的主席。她说：“名字具有力量，一些英文鸟名与过去的联系在今天仍然具有排他性和有害性。” 

“Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely,” Handel added. 

“每个热爱和关心鸟类的人都应该能够自由地欣赏和研究它们，”亨德尔补充道。 

Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all birds named after people will be renamed, the organization announced. 

该组织宣布，所有以人命名的鸟类都将被重新命名，而不是单独审查以人命名的每只鸟。 

Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson’s warbler and Wilson’s snipe. Those are both named after the 19th century naturalist Alexander Wilson. Audubon’s shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name. 

将被重新命名的鸟类包括目前被称为威尔逊莺和威尔逊鹬的鸟类。它们均以 19 世纪博物学家亚历山大·威尔逊 (Alexander Wilson) 的名字命名。奥杜邦海鸥是一种以约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦命名的海鸟，也将获得一个新名字。 

In 2020, the organization renamed a bird that used to be named after Confederate Army General, John P. McCown. It is now called the thick-billed longspur. 

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