i’m literally having bad dreams with the name bill whan in them. sure he sounds like a smart guy in terms of birds, but this is the hill y’all are dying on here? it’d be one thing if the point of his post was to highlight racist and colonialist histories of birding, that’s really important for all of us to constantly consider and deconstruct, but according to him, it wasn’t, meaning he could’ve been tactful and decent in his conveyance of this barn owl info. i mean my goodness, y’all are really gonna leave a listserv in a huff bc someone got banned for using racial slurs when asked not to? good riddance tbh, i’m not interested in a birding community that doesn’t actively work to combat racism and make birding more accessible. -- Gabby Amrhein ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]