A bird named for a Confederate general officially has a new identity - CNN

A bird named for a Confederate general officially has a new identity - CNN

"(CNN)The American Ornithological Society is the latest organization to shed a problematic name from the past.
The organization has announced it is renaming the McCown's longspur, a little prairie bird native to the Southwest and northern Plains that originally was named after Confederate Gen. John Porter McCown. The bird will now be known as the thick-billed longspur.
...Ornithologists since 2018 have been trying to rid the bird's name of the reference to McCown, who in addition to his role in the Civil War also fought in the Seminole Wars, during which US forces tried to force native tribes out of Florida...Read all.