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100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time
- hiyer 5mo agoMy next 100 passwords are sorted.
- dwagnerkc 5mo agoPredicted Antwren is a new favorite. How interesting.
- SommaRaikkonen 5mo agoInaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be
- krylon 5mo agoThe blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.
- Kaliboy 4mo agoOh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.
- fat_cantor 4mo agoHard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned
- sorokod 4mo agoNor the great bustards
- fallinghawks 4mo agoAt least they had the Dickcissel.
- nacozarina 4mo agoor Larry
- pseudohadamard 4mo agoThe Morepork is named after the sound it makes, you can listen to it here, https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/morepork https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/morepork. OTOH some other birds named after their call like the Hadada sound nothing like it.