WVXU's Cincinnati Edition spoke to University of Cincinnati biologist Lucinda Lawson about a proposal by the Ornithological Society of America to rename dozens of North American birds named for people, some of whom had ties to slavery or colonialism.
For example, the Audubon shearwater was named for John J. Audubon, an artist, naturalist and slaveholder. The Bachman's sparrow was named for the Rev. John Bachman, a Lutheran pastor who likewise owned slaves in the 1800s.
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