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[–]hfxB0oyARetarded[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

70 to 80 birds are having their names changed because it's colonialist to have a human name, presumably in most cases just of the people who first discovered them.

Some birds are named after people who have associations with the past that are exclusionary and harmful, according to the society.

"I was just shocked to realize that we're honouring these people by continuing to call these birds by their names," said Fisher Stephenson, a Mount Royal University student and bird watcher from Cochrane, Alta.

So all 80 are banned after horrible people? I highly doubt that. This is completely retarded.