A Cooper's Hawk has built a nest in Wascana Park. The public will be able to watch the chicks as they hatch and grow through the Science Centre webcam.
A number of bird species in Alberta will soon be recognized by new names, as the world’s largest professional organization for ornithologists has decided to rename all birds in the United States and Canada named after people.The Cooper's hawk is one of the birds seen in Alberta that will undergo a name change.
"I was just shocked to realize that we're honouring these people by continuing to call these birds by their names," said Fisher Stephenson, a Mount Royal University student and bird watcher from Cochrane, Alta.Fisher Stephenson is a bird watcher from Cochrane, Alta., who made a short film about the historical figures who inspired some birds' names.
"I think what's really interesting about southern Alberta is that it's the home of the very first species that was renamed because it was named after a person," Koper said on theThat grassland bird is now known as the thick-billed longspur. Its original name honoured John P. McCown, an amateur naturalist who later became a general in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War — the bird's former name was perceived as a painful link to slavery and racism.
"If I'm driving through Calgary and I tell you I saw a yellow-headed blackbird, you don't even need to look at a picture to know what I saw. But if I tell you that I saw Cooper's hawk, that doesn't tell you anything about how spectacular it is," she said.
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