Birds are awesome. Some of the people they’re named for aren’t.

Birds should have their own descriptive names. And as of March 26, 2021, Madison Audubon joins 10 other organizations rallying behind the Bird Names for Birds movement, which pushes for birds with honorific names (like Henslow’s Sparrow and Cooper’s Hawk) to be renamed with names that describe the bird.

Madison Audubon is now an official supporter of Bird Names for Birds!