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<div>Please consider signing a petition against the American Ornithological Society's decision to 
make sweeping changes to English bird names and sending on the link:<br></div><div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-aos-leadership-on-the-recent-decision-to-change-all-eponymous-bird-names?recruiter=607648895&recruited_by_id=5d503000-8c99-11e6-8a35-1dde2ec944f8" target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-aos-leadership-on-the-recent-decision-to-change-all-eponymous-bird-names?recruiter=607648895&recruited_by_id=5d503000-8c99-11e6-8a35-1dde2ec944f8</a><br></div><div><br></div>

 </div><div>If you are wondering why their decision should be opposed and we should work on a case-by-case basis, 
Michael Hurben, PhD, has write a couple of very thoughtful and powerful 
essays:<br></div><div><br clear="all">

</div><div><a href="https://legallyblindbirding.net/2023/11/08/bird-names-and-barriers/" target="_blank">https://legallyblindbirding.net/2023/11/08/bird-names-and-barriers/</a></div><div></div><div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://legallyblindbirding.net/2023/11/10/bird-names-and-barriers-part-ii/" target="_blank">https://legallyblindbirding.net/2023/11/10/bird-names-and-barriers-part-ii/</a></div>

</div><div><br></div><div>And, for what it's worth, my resignation letter is here, with additional links: <a href="https://www.universityofalaskamuseumbirds.org/winker-resigns-from-the-american-ornithological-union" target="_blank">https://www.universityofalaskamuseumbirds.org/winker-resigns-from-the-american-ornithological-union</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, if your thought is, well, it's only English names -- well, clearly the next battle front is scientific names (e.g., Guedes et al. 2023; 

















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).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best, K.</div>

<span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Kevin Winker</div><div>Brina Kessel Curator of Birds<br></div><div>University of Alaska Museum<br>907 Yukon Drive<br>Fairbanks, AK 99775</div><div><br></div><div>Professor, Dept. Biology & Wildlife and Inst. of Arctic Biology</div><div><a href="mailto:kevin.winker@alaska.edu" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="mailto:kevin.winker@alaska.edu" target="_blank">kevin.winker@alaska.edu</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>