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100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time
(
birdhistory.substack.com
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47 points
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bookofjoe
42 days ago
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SommaRaikkonen
42 days ago
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Inaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be
hiyer
42 days ago
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My next 100 passwords are sorted.
Kaliboy
42 days ago
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Oh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.
pseudohadamard
41 days ago
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The Morepork is named after the sound it makes, you can listen to it here,
https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/morepork
. OTOH some other birds named after their call like the Hadada sound nothing like it.
krylon
42 days ago
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The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.
fat_cantor
42 days ago
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Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned
fallinghawks
42 days ago
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At least they had the Dickcissel.
sorokod
42 days ago
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Nor the great bustards
nacozarina
42 days ago
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or Larry
dwagnerkc
42 days ago
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Predicted Antwren is a new favorite. How interesting.
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