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100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time (birdhistory.substack.com)
47 points by bookofjoe 42 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Inaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be


My next 100 passwords are sorted.


Oh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.


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.


The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.


Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned


At least they had the Dickcissel.


Nor the great bustards


or Larry


Predicted Antwren is a new favorite. How interesting.




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