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 ________________________________ 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