So the two species were lumped into one and both given the same new name -- the yellow-rumped warbler. So what’s in a name? Quite a bit – if you’re a bird. This is Michael Ellis with a Perspective.

Our relationship with nature often begins with a name. It's an introduction that tells us something about that animal, like spotted turtle, gray tree frog, or yellow-bellied sapsucker. In many ...

The best way to guarantee breakfast in bed for some small African birds ... Yellow-billed oxpeckers sleep on a giraffe in this nighttime camera trap picture. Photograph Courtesy of Meredith Palmer ...

Their call is a ringing whistle when they are in flight, and a metallic ink when they are perched. The male of this species (left in the picture ... yellow legs. The wary and nervous birds ...

SAN DIEGO — A name change is coming to dozens of species of well-known birds this year — all in a push by the American Ornithological Society to remove human names and swap them with more ...

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million ...

Dozens of bird species will have their English names changed in an attempt to avoid associations with “historic bias” and exclusionary practices, The American Ornithological Society(AOS ...