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This has some explanation. TL;DR get ready to be underwhelmed. This was based on some earlier efforts e.g. one in Sweden that changed bird names containing "neger" (negro), "kaffer" (a racial slur), or "zigenarfågel" (gypsy bird), but the stuff they've been able to find in North America is, well:

• Oldsquaw (a slur)
• Inca Dove (historically inaccurate, no overlap with Incas)
• McCown’s Longspur (McCown was a confederate)

Maybe there were more they didn't mention but my guess is that there's a reason they're writing the story while dancing around what names are actually being changed.

Tits and boobies come to mind.

Sorry, what were we talking about? Birds?

I must say, if they rename the tit or the booby I shall hereby declare a state of war.

Many Latin and Greek names of birds are descriptive. For example what people often call the "tit" bird is actually Parus major, which you could roughly translate into "a bit bigger". And they are the biggest of the tit birds.

And another "tit" actually is called Lophophanes cristatus. Which roughly means "showing the comb (lophophanes) with hood (cristatus)".

You can find a list on https://birdnamesforbirds.wordpress.com/historical-profiles/bios-by-region/ if you're interested.

Twas a Southern Black Tit but it was talking to its homey.

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You actually seem to have got it.

Here's a better source that suggests that they are interested in changing birds named after people, rather than birds named after slurs. It's linked in this article. I really hope that shames op. We need to be better.

Whether or not those people were bigots, they were probably white and male. Same as the anatomists that named the lady parts.

There's just a tradition of the first person to scientifically describe a "thing" getting to name it.

It's not great, but people that get to travel the world describing species and knowing enough to scientifically describe lady parts, etc are not poor people, at least until post war science. They still would have been mostly white and male, but they wouldn't have had to be as much independently wealthy.

The titters