Below is a list of dialect names from the "Concise Ulster Dictionary" (Macafee, 1996). Many are of Ulster Scots or Irish/Scottish Gaelic origin. Others would probably still be in use throughout the British Isles.
I've highlighted a few that I've heard before and also a few that I just like!
It's interesting that so many of them show a real in depth knowledge of the bird's appearance and natural history.
Ailsa cock/parrot- puffin
Allan hawk- great skua/ gn diver/ rt diver
Allibans- puffin
Apple-picker- chaffinch
Baldpate/baldy- coot
Bantam grebe- little grebe
Barduck- merganser/ shelduck
Barley bunting- corn bunting
Barnacle- brent goose
Bessy dooker- dipper
Billy biter/Billy blue-bonnet- blue tit
Black bonnet- reed bunting
Black diver- cormorant
Black duck- scoter
Black gull- arctic skua
Black hag- shag
Black martin- swift
Black-neb- crow
Black Paddy- shag
Black Puffin- black guillemot
Black scart- cormorant
Black skull- great tit
Black-toed gull- arctic skua
Black widgeon scaup/scoter
Blooterwheep- snipe
Blue hawk- sparrow hawk
Blue heron- grey heron
Blue wran- dunnock
Bog bluiter- bittern
Breedyeen- oystercatcher
Briar bunting- corn bunting
Bridle-neb- puffin
Budfinch- bullfinch
Burrian- rt diver
Butcher bird- mistle thrush
Caff- chaffinch
Chink- reed bunting
Chitty wren- wren
Chitterareery- yellowhammer
Chitty wink- kittiwake
Chough- jackdaw
Comber- merganser
Corporal- cormorant
Corney of the cap- goldfinch
Corney of the cravat- reed bunting/ stonechat
Cornageerie- mistle thrush
Cooter-neb- puffin
Crane duck- go grebe
Cran/hern cran- grey heron (still common name in Lurgan)
Cran widgeon- pintail
Croodlin doo- woodpigeon
Croupy- rook
Crow/craa- rook
Cuckoo’s maid- meadow pipit
Cuttyweery- any small sandpiper
Daw- jackdaw
Devilin- pied wagtail
Drink-a-penny- little grebe/ coot
Dunne- knot
Elk- whooper swan (There is an “Elk” bar/restaurant south of Lough Beg adjacent to the whooper’s wintering fields.)
Evening goat- snipe
Felt- fieldfare/ redwing/ mistle thrush
Field sparrow- dunnock
Finlay’s hawk- sparrow hawk
Fish rook- oystercatcher
Flinch- finch
Fooran- puffin
frost bird- fieldfare
Frybird- guillemot/ razorbill
Futtock- dunnock
Game hawk- Peregrine
Gant- gannet
garrabrack- oystercatcher
Garrog- black-headed gull
Gled(e)- kite/ hen harrier
Gabshite- skua
God’s bird- robin
God’s goat- snipe
God’s hen- wren
Goosehawk- peregrine
Gowk- cuckoo
Green linnet- greenfinch
Green plover- lapwing
Green scart- cormorant/ shag
Grey gull- an immature gull
Greyhead- jackdaw
Grey robin- dunnock
Guttersnipe- snipe
Half-moon- gold crest (from the shape of it’s crest!)
Hammerhead- whitethroat
Heath powt- red grouse
Heather cock/hen- red grouse
Heather grey- twite/ meadow pipit
heatherling- twite
Heather-bleat- snipe
hedgeling- dunnock
Herring hawk- manx shearwater
Hoodie- hooded crow
Horn ouzel- gc grebe
Horse gull- lbb gull
Jack curlew- whimbrel
Jack whaup- ringed plover
Jay- mistle thrush
Jenny dabber- tern
Jinny wran- wren
Kack- sparrow hawk
Kay/ka- jackdaw
King-gull- gbb gull
King harry- redpoll
Kite- buzzard/ hen harrier
Kitteryweary- redshank
Land drake/rail- corncrake
Lappeen- lapwing
Laughing gull- herring gull
Lilty- linnet
Limpet picker- oystercatcher
Lintie- linnet
Mackerel cock- manx shearwater
Mary of the trousers- hen reed bunting
Mavis- song thrush
May bird/curlew/jack/whaup- whimbrel
Merle- blackbird
Mire drum- bittern
Mire snipe- snipe
Molrooken- gc grebe
Mosscheeper- meadow pipit
Mossy grey- twite
Mountain star- golden plover
mud lark- dunlin
Murren- razorbill
Mussel-picker- oystercatcher
Nettle-grey- whitethroat
New gull- fulmar
Wee/Irish nightingale- sedge warbler
Norway duck- scaup
Norwegian whaup- bar tailed godwit
Ool- owl
oysterpicker- oystercatcher
Peeweet/peesweep etc.- lapwing
Penny bird- little grebe
Pienet- magpie
Pine-maw- black headed gull
Pirrie- tern
Pope’s eye- gold crest
Purrin bird- nightjar
Pyot- magpie
Quest- woodpigeon
Rainbird- curlew
Red-head- pochard
Red-neb- puffin
Reeler- nightjar
Ring rasher- reed bunting
Ring rush- ring ouzel
Rock ouzel- oystercatcher
Rook- jackdaw
Rosy grey- redpoll
Rush sparrow- reed bunting
Russian curlew- bar-tailed godwit
St. Bride’s bird- oystercatcher
Sally picker- chiffchaff/ willow warbler
Sally wren- chiffchaff/ willow warbler
Sandlark- any sandpiper
Scald crow- hooded crow
Scale drake- shelduck
Scaler duck- merganser
Scamler- merganser
Scarf/ scart- cormorant/ shag
Scoot- razorbill
Screech/shriek- mistle thrush
Sea magpie/pyot- oystercatcher
Seal- grey heron
Seggan runner- water rail
Seven whistler- whimbrel
shear leeks- grey partridge
Shitehawk- skua
Shuffle wing- dunnock
Single snipe- jack snipe
Skir- tern
Skrike owl- barn owl
Slater- starling
Snib- snipe
Snowburd- starling
Solan goose- gannet
sparrow hawk- kestrel
Spear widgeon- merganser
Speedy grey- redpoll
Spiddiock- robin
Spink- finch
Spool whaup- bar tailed godwit/ whimbrel
Spoonbill- shoveler
Spug- house sparrow
Spurr- common tern
Squirley thrush- mistle thrush
Stagger stone- wheatear
Stare- starling
Stone row- knot
Stone twister- wheatear
Stucky- starling
Summer snipe- common sandpiper
Tattle- meadow pipit
Throstle- song thrush
Titling- meadow pipit
Tittymouse/ Tam titty mouse- blue tit
Titty wran- wren
Tam whinney- little grebe
Tommy norrie- puffin
Tom puddin- little grebe
Torie bird- grasshopper warbler
Tossel head- gc grebe
Wallapy- lapwing
Watter hen- moorhen
weather bleat- snipe
Wee diver- little grebe
Wee water hen- water rail
Welsh parrot- puffin
Wet-my fut- quail
Whaup/whap/whaap- curlew
Wilkpicker - oystercatcher
Whin grey- linnet
Whin sparrow- dunnock
Whistler- golden eye
White owl- barn owl
Whitterick- little grebe
Wild duck- mallard
Wild pigeon- woodpigeon
Willie dooker- cormorant
Willie wagtail- pied wagtail ( still common name in Lurgan)
Willow wren- chiffchaff
Woodcock owl- short eared owl
Woodpecker- tree creeper
Wool-cottar- cormorant
Wran- wren
Yarwhelp- godwit
Yellow wagtail- grey wagtail
Yoldring/yella yorlin/ yella yalder etc.- yellowhammer
I've highlighted a few that I've heard before and also a few that I just like!
It's interesting that so many of them show a real in depth knowledge of the bird's appearance and natural history.
Ailsa cock/parrot- puffin
Allan hawk- great skua/ gn diver/ rt diver
Allibans- puffin
Apple-picker- chaffinch
Baldpate/baldy- coot
Bantam grebe- little grebe
Barduck- merganser/ shelduck
Barley bunting- corn bunting
Barnacle- brent goose
Bessy dooker- dipper
Billy biter/Billy blue-bonnet- blue tit
Black bonnet- reed bunting
Black diver- cormorant
Black duck- scoter
Black gull- arctic skua
Black hag- shag
Black martin- swift
Black-neb- crow
Black Paddy- shag
Black Puffin- black guillemot
Black scart- cormorant
Black skull- great tit
Black-toed gull- arctic skua
Black widgeon scaup/scoter
Blooterwheep- snipe
Blue hawk- sparrow hawk
Blue heron- grey heron
Blue wran- dunnock
Bog bluiter- bittern
Breedyeen- oystercatcher
Briar bunting- corn bunting
Bridle-neb- puffin
Budfinch- bullfinch
Burrian- rt diver
Butcher bird- mistle thrush
Caff- chaffinch
Chink- reed bunting
Chitty wren- wren
Chitterareery- yellowhammer
Chitty wink- kittiwake
Chough- jackdaw
Comber- merganser
Corporal- cormorant
Corney of the cap- goldfinch
Corney of the cravat- reed bunting/ stonechat
Cornageerie- mistle thrush
Cooter-neb- puffin
Crane duck- go grebe
Cran/hern cran- grey heron (still common name in Lurgan)
Cran widgeon- pintail
Croodlin doo- woodpigeon
Croupy- rook
Crow/craa- rook
Cuckoo’s maid- meadow pipit
Cuttyweery- any small sandpiper
Daw- jackdaw
Devilin- pied wagtail
Drink-a-penny- little grebe/ coot
Dunne- knot
Elk- whooper swan (There is an “Elk” bar/restaurant south of Lough Beg adjacent to the whooper’s wintering fields.)
Evening goat- snipe
Felt- fieldfare/ redwing/ mistle thrush
Field sparrow- dunnock
Finlay’s hawk- sparrow hawk
Fish rook- oystercatcher
Flinch- finch
Fooran- puffin
frost bird- fieldfare
Frybird- guillemot/ razorbill
Futtock- dunnock
Game hawk- Peregrine
Gant- gannet
garrabrack- oystercatcher
Garrog- black-headed gull
Gled(e)- kite/ hen harrier
Gabshite- skua
God’s bird- robin
God’s goat- snipe
God’s hen- wren
Goosehawk- peregrine
Gowk- cuckoo
Green linnet- greenfinch
Green plover- lapwing
Green scart- cormorant/ shag
Grey gull- an immature gull
Greyhead- jackdaw
Grey robin- dunnock
Guttersnipe- snipe
Half-moon- gold crest (from the shape of it’s crest!)
Hammerhead- whitethroat
Heath powt- red grouse
Heather cock/hen- red grouse
Heather grey- twite/ meadow pipit
heatherling- twite
Heather-bleat- snipe
hedgeling- dunnock
Herring hawk- manx shearwater
Hoodie- hooded crow
Horn ouzel- gc grebe
Horse gull- lbb gull
Jack curlew- whimbrel
Jack whaup- ringed plover
Jay- mistle thrush
Jenny dabber- tern
Jinny wran- wren
Kack- sparrow hawk
Kay/ka- jackdaw
King-gull- gbb gull
King harry- redpoll
Kite- buzzard/ hen harrier
Kitteryweary- redshank
Land drake/rail- corncrake
Lappeen- lapwing
Laughing gull- herring gull
Lilty- linnet
Limpet picker- oystercatcher
Lintie- linnet
Mackerel cock- manx shearwater
Mary of the trousers- hen reed bunting
Mavis- song thrush
May bird/curlew/jack/whaup- whimbrel
Merle- blackbird
Mire drum- bittern
Mire snipe- snipe
Molrooken- gc grebe
Mosscheeper- meadow pipit
Mossy grey- twite
Mountain star- golden plover
mud lark- dunlin
Murren- razorbill
Mussel-picker- oystercatcher
Nettle-grey- whitethroat
New gull- fulmar
Wee/Irish nightingale- sedge warbler
Norway duck- scaup
Norwegian whaup- bar tailed godwit
Ool- owl
oysterpicker- oystercatcher
Peeweet/peesweep etc.- lapwing
Penny bird- little grebe
Pienet- magpie
Pine-maw- black headed gull
Pirrie- tern
Pope’s eye- gold crest
Purrin bird- nightjar
Pyot- magpie
Quest- woodpigeon
Rainbird- curlew
Red-head- pochard
Red-neb- puffin
Reeler- nightjar
Ring rasher- reed bunting
Ring rush- ring ouzel
Rock ouzel- oystercatcher
Rook- jackdaw
Rosy grey- redpoll
Rush sparrow- reed bunting
Russian curlew- bar-tailed godwit
St. Bride’s bird- oystercatcher
Sally picker- chiffchaff/ willow warbler
Sally wren- chiffchaff/ willow warbler
Sandlark- any sandpiper
Scald crow- hooded crow
Scale drake- shelduck
Scaler duck- merganser
Scamler- merganser
Scarf/ scart- cormorant/ shag
Scoot- razorbill
Screech/shriek- mistle thrush
Sea magpie/pyot- oystercatcher
Seal- grey heron
Seggan runner- water rail
Seven whistler- whimbrel
shear leeks- grey partridge
Shitehawk- skua
Shuffle wing- dunnock
Single snipe- jack snipe
Skir- tern
Skrike owl- barn owl
Slater- starling
Snib- snipe
Snowburd- starling
Solan goose- gannet
sparrow hawk- kestrel
Spear widgeon- merganser
Speedy grey- redpoll
Spiddiock- robin
Spink- finch
Spool whaup- bar tailed godwit/ whimbrel
Spoonbill- shoveler
Spug- house sparrow
Spurr- common tern
Squirley thrush- mistle thrush
Stagger stone- wheatear
Stare- starling
Stone row- knot
Stone twister- wheatear
Stucky- starling
Summer snipe- common sandpiper
Tattle- meadow pipit
Throstle- song thrush
Titling- meadow pipit
Tittymouse/ Tam titty mouse- blue tit
Titty wran- wren
Tam whinney- little grebe
Tommy norrie- puffin
Tom puddin- little grebe
Torie bird- grasshopper warbler
Tossel head- gc grebe
Wallapy- lapwing
Watter hen- moorhen
weather bleat- snipe
Wee diver- little grebe
Wee water hen- water rail
Welsh parrot- puffin
Wet-my fut- quail
Whaup/whap/whaap- curlew
Wilkpicker - oystercatcher
Whin grey- linnet
Whin sparrow- dunnock
Whistler- golden eye
White owl- barn owl
Whitterick- little grebe
Wild duck- mallard
Wild pigeon- woodpigeon
Willie dooker- cormorant
Willie wagtail- pied wagtail ( still common name in Lurgan)
Willow wren- chiffchaff
Woodcock owl- short eared owl
Woodpecker- tree creeper
Wool-cottar- cormorant
Wran- wren
Yarwhelp- godwit
Yellow wagtail- grey wagtail
Yoldring/yella yorlin/ yella yalder etc.- yellowhammer
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