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The group responsible for naming birds across the Americas is renaming all birds named after problematic people.
For example, Audubon's Shearwater, named after John Audubon, a famous bird illustrator and slave owner who opposed abolition.
The Shearwater is a small seabird found mostly in the tropical waters of North America,
New names will be more descriptive about a bird's habitat or physical features.