Townsend’s Solitaire
Named for the naturalist John Kirk Townsend, this cute grey bird is due a rebrand. As reported by the Washington Post, Townsend stole skulls from native graves to “promote his theory that they were racially inferior.”
Named for the naturalist John Kirk Townsend, this cute grey bird is due a rebrand. As reported by the Washington Post, Townsend stole skulls from native graves to “promote his theory that they were racially inferior.”
