They don't propose renaming all american birds, just those named after white people. Do you seriously need to make clickbait titles even on birdforum?
Personally I have noticed this weird tendency to have bird names in English after people and not the birds themselves a long time ago and consider it absurd. Does everything need to be a little memorial to someone? In Czech, there are a few similar outliers, but most birds are named after some feature of theirs, which is muchore logical. Moreover, that's also more likely to be stable in time.
I am not personally bothered by the fact that the names come from "white people", but having a bird named after a confederate general is outrageous and that really needs to be changed. We have also removed all references to Stalin from all our naming systems .
Here's the list, a subsequent commentator doesn't like 'Pygmy' either.
Ross’s Goose to
Pygmy Snow Goose
Ring-Necked Duck to Ring-Billed Duck
Steller’s Eider to Siberian Eider (Duck)
Barrow’s Goldeneye to Mountain Goldeneye
Gambel’s Quail to Sonoran Quail
Clark’s Grebe to Yellow-Billed Grebe
Cory’s Shearwater to European Shearwater
Buller’s Shearwater to New Zealand Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater to Caribbean (Tropical Atlantic) Shearwater
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel to Ubiquitous Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel to North Ocean Storm-Petrel
Brandt’s Cormorant to Pacific Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant to Littoral Cormorant
Cooper’s Hawk to Aggressive Hawk
Harris’s Hawk to Pack-Hunting Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk to Grasshopper Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk to Iron Hawk
Ridgeway’s Rail to Western Rail
Wilson’s Plover to Thick-Billed Plover
Whimbrel to Whimbrel Curlew
Hudsonian Godwit to Muskeg Godwit
Baird’s Sandpiper to Long-Winged Sandpiper
Kittlitz’s Murrelet to Glacier Murrelet
Scripps’s Murrelet to Gray-Black Murrelet
Craveri’s Murrelet to Baja Murrelet
Cassin’s Auklet to Blue-Steel Auklet
Bonaparte’s Gull to Boreal or Tree-Nesting Gull
Sabine’s Gull to Xema (Tundra) Gull
Ross’s Gull to Pink-Hued Gull
Franklin’s Gull to Pothole Gull
Heermaan’s Gull to Mexican Gull
Forster’s Tern to Marsh Tern
Vaux’s Swift to Small-Billed Swift
Rivoli’s Hummingbird to Majestic Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird to Chaparral Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird to Desert Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird to Pacific Hummingbird
Lewis’s Woodpecker to Great Basin Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker to Eastern Red-Capped Woodpecker
Williamson’s Sapsucker to Ponderosa Sapsucker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker to California Woodpecker
Sprague’s Pipit to Shortgrass Pipit
Couch’s Kingbird to Gulf Kingbird
Cassin’s Kingbird to Mountain Kingbird
Peewees renamed Contopus
Olive-Sided Flycatcher to Olive-Sided Contopus
Say’s Pheobe to Peach-Bellied Contopus
Hammond’s Flycatcher to Canopy Flycatcher
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher to Scissor-Tailed Kingbird
Fork-Tailed Flycatcher to Fork-Tailed Kingbird
Cassin’s Vireo to Olive-Sided Vireo
Hutton’s Vireo to Kinglet Vireo
Steller’s Jay to Black Crested Jay
Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay to Interior Scrub Jay
Clark’s Nutcracker to Alpine Nutcracker
Bewicks Wren to Shrub Wren
Townsend’s Solitaire to Rocky Mountain Solitaire
Bicknell’s Thrush to Atlantic Nightingale-Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush to Boreal Nightingale-Thrush
Bendire’s Thrasher to Straight-Billed Thrasher
LeConte’s Thrasher to Mohave Thrasher
Smith’s Longspur to Tree-line Longspur
McCown’s Longspur to Dakota Longspur
McKay’s Bunting to Island Snow Bunting
Louisiana Waterthrush to Stream Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush to Fen Waterthrush
Prothonotary Warbler to Golden Swamp Warbler
Swainson’s Warbler to Pocosin Warbler
Tennessee Warbler to Spruce Warbler
Lucy’s Warbler to Sonoran Warbler
Nashville Warbler to Blue-Gray Headed Warbler
Virginia’s Warbler to Great Basin Warbler
Connecticut Warbler to Eye-Ringed Warbler
MacGillvray’s Warbler to Brush Warbler
Kentucky Warbler to Understory Warbler
Kirtland’s Warbler to Jack Pine Warbler
Cape May Warbler to Tiger Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler to Flame-Faced Warbler
Palm Warbler to Wagging Warbler
Prairie Warbler to Scrub Warbler
Grace’s Warbler to Mountain Pine Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler to Fir Warbler
Canada Warbler to Shady-Woods Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler to Black-Capped Warbler
Morelet’s Seedeater to Northern White-Collared Seedeater
Botteri’s Sparrow to Semi-Desert Warbler
Cassin’s Sparrow to Southern Plains Warbler
Backman’s Sparrow to Palmetto Sparrow
Baird’s Sparrow to Northern Plains Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow to Tall-Grass Sparrow
LeConte’s Sparrow to Wet-Grass Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow to Disjunct Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow to Great Basin Sparrow
Harris Sparrow to Taiga Sparrow
Bell’s Sparrow to Chaparral Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow to Willow Sparrow
Abert’s Towhee to Sonoran Towhee
Tanagers to Piranga
Hepatic Piranga
Summer Piranga
Scarlet Piranga
Western Piranga
Scott’s Oriole to Yucca Oriole
Brewer’s Blackbird to Pasture Blackbird
Cassin’s Finch to Inter-Mountain Finch
Lawrence’s Goldfinch to California Goldfinch