Birds with most excellent names

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the yellow-rumped warbler:

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Photo/Images/h6550pi.jpg

the ferruginous pygmy-owl:

ihttp://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Photo/Images/h3800pi.jpg

the bushtit:

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Photo/Images/h7430p2.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

fuck, i knew the second link wouldn't work.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

lesser yellowlegs:
ihttp://www.tucsonbirds.org/pix/birds.asp?c=f&s=3&f=0a/0A33LesserYellowlegs

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

How does one find the arcane knowledge to contribute to this thread? Am I to browse a glossary of cossawarys?

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

common peafowl:
http://www.tucsonbirds.org/pix/birds.asp?c=f&s=3&f=2003_01/110_1072

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

The Masked Booby:

http://www.pearsonandassociates.com/chile/img/ecuador/islaplata/1476%20masked%20booby.JPG

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Brown Thrashers -- there are a few pairs of these settled in to our back yard year-round.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Secretary bird

http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/pics/secretary.jpg

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Cedar Waxwing. These are really cool looking birds.

― Baby Bat (Komorinoko), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Also, the Tufted Titmouse. Any idea why several birds have "tit" in their names?

― Baby Bat (Komorinoko), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

now i have Peter Gabriel going through my head.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Chickadee is surely the cutest bird name

http://www.wbu.com/edu/images/chickadee%20winter.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

we have some bright bright green parrots here that are called 'twenty-eights'

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

i found a picture! This is a twenty-eight parrot. they're named that because their call sounds a bit like someone shouting 'twentyeight'

http://www.abc.net.au/perth/stories/The_ringne_m849106.jpg

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

These birds all kick ass!! I love birds! My fave is the Oak Titmouse who is a regular visitor to my birdfeeder.

http://www.stanford.edu/~petelat1/photos/oati-1.jpg

Those birds upthread are all really beautiful though. The Cedar Waxwing and Secretary Birds are particularly sweet.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

The Oak Titmouse may not be much to look at but he has this hilarious badass attitude.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

OMG, I just clicked on that tiny owl pic. That is just too much.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

http://manur.is.free.fr/moria/gms/day%20of%20the%20beast/le%20ma%EEtre%20des%20engoulevents/goatsucker.jpg

The goatsucker.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.toonhound.com/fiddley-3.gif

the Fiddley Foodle Bim Bam Boodle Oo-diddly Doodle Oodle Bird

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

JOE CARIOCA
http://duckman.pettho.com/drinfo/jcarioca.jpg

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

http://re2.mm-c.yimg.com/image/277488232
GRACKle (Cool, shiny feathers too.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Junco - cool name, not much to look at.

Eastern Phoebe - Awwww!
http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/images/phoebe.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Great Tit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2003/01/images/rspb_bllackbird_pop_up_16.jpg
Blue Tit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39867000/jpg/_39867656_snowbird300_pa.jpg
Long Tailed Tit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/images/2005/01/13/2005_feature_bird_watching_long_tailed_tit_gallery_470x300.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

tit (2)
1548, "any small animal or object" (as in compound forms such as titmouse, tomtit, etc.); also used of small horses. Similar words in related senses are found in Scand. (cf. Icel. tittr, Norw. tita "a little bird"), but the connection and origin are obscure; perhaps, as OED suggests, the word is merely suggestive of something small. Used figuratively of persons after 1734, but earlier for "a girl or young woman," usually in deprecatory sense of "a hussy, minx" (1599). Tit for tat (1556) is possibly an alteration of tip for tap "blow for blow," from tip (v.3) "tap" + tap "touch lightly."
From http://www.etymonline.com

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Hurrah a celebration of the humble tit family

Coal Tit

http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/2845017_00071_002_180_tcm3-56468.jpg

Crested Tit

http://stevenround-birdphotography.com/images/crested-tit-02.jpg

Interestingly the Longtailed Tit is not directly related to other common British tits.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Bearded Tit

ihttp://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/i4961%20(crop180)_tcm3-41076.jpg

Marsh Tit

ihttp://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/i4961%20(crop180)_tcm3-41076.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

curses

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

The Great Bustard:

http://www.fincasantamarta.com/images/great-bustard-displaying.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.borealforest.org/birds/gull.jpg

Yeah, it's a seagull. But where I come from, we call 'em "Shithawks."

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

OMG, I just clicked on that tiny owl pic. That is just too much.

isn't it? i want one.

my theory as to why birds have these crazy names: ornithologists are all daft old bespectacled men who think they live in the 19th century.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Most of them did live in the 19th century!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

and the 18th century too! those guys were even more hardcore.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

BTW I'm still hoping to have a shag in the garden one of these days.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - not an offer!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh go on then...

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

i'd love to get my hands on the six-volume birds of the soviet union (published in the early '50s).

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Scops Owl.

ihttp://kypros.org/Cyprus/gifs/scops.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Thee Purple Roller. Dunno if there's a Purple Rocker to go with.

http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/PurpleRoller(GGSS).jpg

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Just a few minutes ago in our back yard, a female yellow-belled sapsucker:

A bit out of her range for this time of year. I assume she was stopping for a meal on her way north.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

For me, birdwatching is as pure a pleasure as listening to music nowadays. Funny how that's happened in the last few years.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

what you said.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Right after I posted that, my wife called from inside the house to tell me she just had the first hummingbird visit of the year to the feeder on her office window. I officially declare it Summer In Mississippi.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Rock, that's quite a picture!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that was just imagegoogled to give an idea of the kind of bird. I didn't have the camera with me. ("Why don't you keep it out in the office for times like this?" he asked himself.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tilda.edu-negev.gov.il/nit/boo.gif
Chicken Boo

― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

i've seen some hummingbirds around. must be summer!

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm turning into one of those crazy old ladies who feed pigeons in public spaces -- yesterday i had a bagel that i didn't really want and i entertained myself throwing pieces of it to the hungry birds loitering in the square. they were coming up to me, looking at me with pleading puppydog eyes!

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Magnificent Frigatebird
http://www.tdroddaphoto.com/PHOTOS/Male%20Frigate.jpg
Blue-Footed Booby
http://homepage.virgin.net/jacky.buckton/Birding/Ecuador/Blfbooby.jpg
Bobolink
http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/4153/deltawest/plantanimal/images/boblink.gif
Ladder-back Woodpecker
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/LadderbackedWoodpecker(BH).jpg
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
http://www.naturesound.com/birds/hires/rbgrby.jpg
Bronzed Cowbird
http://www.tekipaki.jp/~texbird/images/BronzedCowbird.jpg
Painted Bunting
http://www.greglasley.net/Images/Painted-Bunting-May-2002.jpg

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I've seen a couple of painted buntings in person. Wonderful freaky nature.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Were you in the Gulf area? That seems to be the eden of North American birding.

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

No, it was just a couple of miles from here (northeast MS), at the farmhouse we rented for a few months before we bought a house. Another funny in-town/out-of-town thing is that red-winged blackbirds are all over the place at the farmhouse, but I've never seen them here in town.

Going inside for another cup of coffee, I saw the sapsucker again, so I sat outside for a while with the camera, and of course she never showed. But the hummingbirds are definitely settling in. From about five feet away and in the right light, the ruby-throated hummingbird's throat looks like beaten copper. It looked like I could lift its ass and see "Zildjian" printed underneath.

Somebody make this day last forever.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

In and amongst scrapyards and the home depot & circuit city stores that now line North Avenue here in Chicago, there live a number of red-winged blackbirds along the river, which make sitting in traffic more enjoyable.

In the skies above my backyard I have witnessed this fellow:
http://www.schmoker.org/BirdPics/Photos/Raptors/AMKEfly.jpg
...The American Kestrel, our (North America's) smallest raptor...
http://www.coveside.biz/kestrel-inset.jpg

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

i love love LOVE kestrels.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

but yeah, that magnificent frigatebird is some freaky-deaky shit:

http://www.petecoe.com/html-portraits/full-06-magnificient-frigat.jpg

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I want to cross one of those with a nasty swole-ass orangutan.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

GREBES YOU BOHOS.

Pied-Billed
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/pub/ifwis/birds/images/pied-billed-grebe.jpg

~~Terminator~~ Eared Grebe
http://www.southwestbirders.com/elderhostel_042102/eared%20grebe.jpg

― L (Leee), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

you know, i have an .avi of winged migration on my laptop here (in a coffee bar). i'm about ready to pull out my headphones and watch it again.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/113000/113489/Sheen-FP21R.jpg

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Shrike

http://www.imperial.cc.ca.us/birds/shrike.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

One of Illinois' rarest (and coolest) birds, the Greater Prairie Chicken
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/images/feature8_5.jpg

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

All stand for the red-footed falcon, the least threatening Bird of Prey ever. It strongly resembles a teddy bear I had as a child.

http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art64.gif

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Harpy Eagle, fucked up head plumage.

http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/zoo/harpy.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

The Kea, proof that nature has a sense of humour.

http://www.doc.govt.nz/images/kea.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

I give you the white bellied go away bird
http://www.kenyalogy.com/images/turavb.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 30 May 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

the flammulated owl:

http://www.hawkwatch.org/RaptorWatch/spring_2003/Flammulated_Owl_inhand.jpg

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 June 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

the lucifer hummingbird:

http://www.hummingbirds.net/species_images/luciferm.jpg

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 June 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

pyrrhuloxia:

http://www.battistebedandbirds.com/julie/Pyrrhuloxia%20close-up.jpg

― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 20 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

Bee Eater
ihttp://www.alsirhan.com/images/Bee-eater_sc1.jpg
Hoopoe
ihttp://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/Hoopoe1.jpg
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/vireo/hoopoe.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 June 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

Puffin
http://photos.terrography.com/albums/Shetlands/puffin2.sized.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 June 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Again with the Bee Eater
http://www.fincasantamarta.com/images/bee-eater.jpg
& the Hoopoe
http://www.fincasantamarta.com/images/Hoopoe.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 20 June 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

I became interested in birdwatching in a desultory sort of way while in New Zealand. Who doesn't love the Morepork?

http://www.nwf.org/internationalwildlife/2001/images/morepork.jpg

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

winged migration is better than top gun!

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 20 June 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

The red vented bulbil and the red tailed tropic bird

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 20 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

The hummingbirds have abandoned us! I've cleaned and refilled the feeders, and there are red lantanas and cannas in bloom, but no takers. I'm very sad.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 20 June 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

The Loggerhead Shrike

http://pie.midco.net/dougback/miscphotos/loggerhead_shrike2.jpg

How does the shrike - a songbird that, unlike birds of prey, has weak feet, no talons and a small beak - capture and kill its prey? It drops onto prey from a perch or pursues the prey until it's tired, then hits and stuns it. The shrike quickly carries the prey in its bill to a thorn or piece of barbed wire and impales it. Once the prey is dead, the shrike tears away and eats small pieces with its sharp beak. The habit of impaling its prey has earned the shrike another name, "butcher bird."

― donut e-goo (donut), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

nineteen years pass...

Diamond firetail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_firetail

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 9 December 2024 19:26 (one year ago)

the Water Ouzel -- which to their everlasting shame certain officious numbskulls think should be referred to as the American Dipper instead

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 9 December 2024 21:05 (one year ago)

good good. " kinklos that was used to describe small tail-wagging birds that resided near water."

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:22 (one year ago)

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