Make up your own bird names (3 Viewers)

[Andy Hurley]

Here is a very cryptic name

Heavy-metal Bunting = Yellowhammer


No?

Ok, I'll explain.

Yellowhammer is Goldammer in German, as Ammer is Bunting and gold is heavy, therefore Heavy-metal Bunting!

 

[grobble]

My African Grey is sometimes indelicately referred to as Red-arsed Shittyfoot.

 

[MJB]

My African Grey is sometimes indelicately referred to as Red-arsed Shittyfoot.

Long-legged Buzzard is known in some parts as Short-trousered Buzzard...
MJB

 

[Peter C.]

I've long wanted to change the name of Red-bellied Woodpecker to something more useful, descriptively. I have never come up with anything but "Ladder-backed Woodpecker" which is, unfortunately, already taken.

 

[ovenbird43]

I've long wanted to change the name of Red-bellied Woodpecker to something more useful, descriptively. I have never come up with anything but "Ladder-backed Woodpecker" which is, unfortunately, already taken.

I've often thought about potential names for this species as well. Perhaps Carolina Woodpecker. It's hard to come up with accurate descriptive names that aren't already taken - maybe Red-capped, but not quite accurate. Blank-faced Woodpecker? Bar-backed Woodpecker?

 

[Larry Sweetland]

not quite accurate. Blank-faced Woodpecker?

I think Blank-faced is such a good'un, that if not woodpecker, there should be a blank-faced something. eg Blank-faced Warbler for Thick-billed.

 

[Peter C.]

I've often thought about potential names for this species as well. Perhaps Carolina Woodpecker. It's hard to come up with accurate descriptive names that aren't already taken - maybe Red-capped, but not quite accurate. Blank-faced Woodpecker? Bar-backed Woodpecker?

Carolina Woodpecker would be appropriate, as it describes the range fairly accurately. ("Carolinean" might be closer.)

 

[Cheshire Birder]

I like this one which I found through someone mis-spelling it:- Yellow-rumpled Warbler!

CB

 

[MJB]

I like this one which I found through someone mis-spelling it:- Yellow-rumpled Warbler! CB

Another slightly mangled name is Short-treed Toepecker!:eek!:
MJB

 

[dantheman]

Dodge Viper for Crested Caracara.

Not seen either, but reckon it kinda fits?

 

[Peter C.]

Dodge Viper for Crested Caracara.

Not seen either, but reckon it kinda fits?

Wouldn't that be name be better to apply to Secretarybird?

 

[Andy Hurley]

Another slightly mangled name is Short-treed Toepecker!:eek!:
MJB

:t:

 

[dantheman]

Wouldn't that be name be better to apply to Secretarybird?

That was my first thought. Wasn't sure if the jizz was right.

 

[dantheman]

Sylvanian Grebe is one I've come across.

And let's just help everyone and call them Wooper Swans (instead of Hooper for Whooper)

 

[Trystan]

Yes lets sort out some badly spelled/pronounced birds.

Is it a Hoopo or a Hoopoo

Change all the plovers to pluvers

And just change prothonotary warbler to yellow warbler II

 

[MJB]

Dodge Viper for Crested Caracara.

Not seen either, but reckon it kinda fits?

For the Northern Crested Caracara, a Belize farmer called it, in wonderfully mellifluous fashion, 'Skoll-croshin Chicken-oke' (Skull-crushing Chicken-Hawk).:eek!:
MJB

 

[Cypselurus92]

In Chinese folk stories, the Wagtail is called an 'Ice-smasher Bird'- apparently, it arrives at precisely the time of the melting ice in spring.
Some other cool Chinese-English translations are-

Coot- Eurasian Bone-fronted Chicken
Red-necked Phalarope- Petal-footed Sandpiper
Caspian Tern- Red-billed Colossal Gull
Coppersmith Barbet- Crimson-chested Similar-to-Woodpecker
Pied Kingfisher- Patterned Fish-dog
Tibetan Sandgrouse- Tibet Furry-legged Sand-chicken (I am not making any of these up, honest.)
Brown Noddy- White-fronted Hover-gull

 

[kitefarrago]

I like the idea of translations! For those of you not familiar with German, care to guess the names of the following common European passerines?

Cathedral cleric (though really need a slightly more derogatory word for the second)

Gray snapper

Kernel biter

Silktail

Summer golden chicklet (cockerellet would be even closer)

Winter golden chicklet

King of the fence

Andrea

 

[Cypselurus92]

Is 'Kernel Biter' a Hawfinch?

 

[kitefarrago]

Is 'Kernel Biter' a Hawfinch?

Indeed it is. Well done.

Andrea