[TN-Bird] Re: more fun with bird names

  • From: Daniel Estabrooks <hyla514@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tn-bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:40:52 -0800 (PST)

Oh, it gets worse... You know what two birds are really good at baseball?

Buntings and flycatchers.

I should probably go find a life now.

Daniel


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 From: "Reese, Carol" <jreese5@xxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:09 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] more fun with bird names
 

 
Cedar Faxwing: a highly evolved bird that employs telecommunications instead of 
bird song.
Redheaded Hoodpecker: a hot-tempered bird known to attack automobiles parked 
too close to its habitat.
Stuffed Grouse: elusive oven-ready game bird. (Robin Lovell, Toronto)
Pleated Woodpecker: a bird with uniquely folded feathers. (Anne Roney, London, 
Ont.)
Vowl: a night hunter identified by its call of "AEIOU."
Purple Martian: bird with the longest migration route. (Al Wilkinson,
Barrie)
Northern Shriek: greets the northern dawn with a frenzied, but meaningless, cry 
of alarm. (B. W. Jackson, Hamilton)
Evening Grosspeak: noctural bird indigenous to city parks. Song is a series of 
loud, strident noises accompanied by rude language.
Chickapea: a small European migrant; feeds mainly on garbanzo beans.
(Sandra L. Jones, Vancouver, and Cathy Furgiuele, Toronto)
The Purple Flinch: a nervous and twitchy bird, easily startled.
The Black-Capped Chiclet: a small bird known for lengthy mastication of its 
food. (Christine Dugdale, Lachine, Que.)
Hooded Mergangster: a duck that terrorizes other birds and steals their eggs.
Glossy Ibid: a long-legged wader, always seen in the same place.
Red-tailed Gawk: a large bird that sits in a tree and stares at the landscape. 
(Geoffrey Pierpoint, King City, Ont.)
Baltimore Oreo: eats the middle of his food first. (Linda Lumsden, 
Peterborough, Ont.)
Power Moa: a noisy bird that feeds on suburban lawns.
Storm Petrol: an oilbird (genus Hydrocarbonae) indigenous to Exxon Provence. 
(Chris Doyle, Burke, Va.)
Either/or-iole: indecisive bird, afraid to take existential leap.
Toucam: has miniature camera in its bill for live Web casts. (Paul Kocak, 
Syracuse, N.Y.)
Thumbingbird: has learned to alleviate the stress of lengthy migrations by 
hitchhiking. (C. H. Vane-Hunt, Salt Spring Island, B.C.)
Long-Billed Curfew: a quiet bird, rarely seen after nightfall. (Jay Booker,
Vancouver)
The Ring-Necked Pleasant: much nicer than others of its species. (S. J.
Hollenberg, Vancouver)
Hamming Pigeon: will imitate William Shatner for food. (G. Treflak, Sudbury)
Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798 Slater Museum of Natural History 
fax 253-879-3352 University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson@xxxxxxx Tacoma, WA 
98416 http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html
 
 
"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot." 
— Aldo Leopold
 
Carol Reese
Ornamental Horticulture Specialist -Western District 
University of Tennessee Extension Service
605 Airways Blvd.
Jackson TN 38301
731 425 4767 email  jreese5@xxxxxxx

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