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Renaming a bill type for Tundra Swan ( Cygnus columbianus )

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posted on 2025-05-17, 05:43 authored by Richard LittauerRichard Littauer

A subspecies of Tundra Swan, the Bewick’s Swan (Cygnus columbianus bewickii) has patterns of yellow areas on its bill. The schema for identifying individual bill-types includes a term which is known to be offensive, used for bills which are predominantly black. Following other movements to decolonialize and reject antiquated and offensive terms, I suggest that we rename this term going forward.

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