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Earnest lad · May 23, 2019

When I can't sleep at night, I don't count sheep.
What I do to try and get me to nod off is go through the alphabet trying to come up with birds who's names begin with each letter of the alphabet. For example, starting with the letter "A", I have Avocet.
I have managed all the letters actually with one exception.
Please can anyone advise as to whether or not there are any birds that have names (In the English) that start with the letter "X"
I cannot think of any....

njlarsen · May 23, 2019

Plain Xenops https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Plain_Xenops

Niels

awiner · May 23, 2019

njlarsen said:
Plain Xenops https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Plain_Xenops

Niels

Plus White-naped Xenopsaris.

Or if you want the first word of the name, there's Xantus's Hummingbird, Xavier's Greenbul, Xingu Scale-backed Antbird, and Xinjiang Ground-Jay.

dantheman · May 23, 2019

Have played this game whilst driving long journeys recently (and no children, small or otherwise in the car) Along with fruit, mammals, cars etc. Can go through a couple times before start getting too tricksy and move onto next category.

Have you tried memorising latin binomial bird names in order to get to sleep? ...

James Jobling · May 23, 2019

In preparation for (yet another) Dictionary I have the following Xs (current or formerly used as English names); Xanthoploceus, Xanthorn, Xanthotis, Xema, Xenicopsoides, Xenoctistes, Xenops, Xenopsaris.

Nutcracker · May 23, 2019

Xantus's Murrelet

Björn Bergenholtz · May 23, 2019

Nutcracker's "Xantu's Murrelet" should, of course, be: Xantus's (or Xantus') murrelet Brachyramphus/Endomychura/Synthliboramphus hypoleucus [nowaday's split into two species; Scripps's murrelet Synthliboramphus scrippsi Green & Arnold, 1939 resp. Guadalupe murrelet Synthliboramphus hypoleucus (Xántus de Vesey, 1860)].

And, on top of this; in my MS (of Swedish Common names) I have the following (that apparently also works in English):
• Xantus's Hummingbird (Hylocharis) Basilinna xantusii (Lawrence, 1861)
• Xavier's Greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri (Oustalet, 1892)
• (Plain) Xenops Xenops minutus (Sparrman, 1788)
• (White-naped) Xenopsaris Xenopsaris albinucha (Burmeister, 1869)
• Xingu Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis vidua (Hellmayr, 1905)

Sleep tight!

l_raty · May 23, 2019

http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/Genera/RIGenX.html
(I felt "Xantu's" looked interestingly (or scaringly?) Lovecraftian, when I first saw it.

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Andy Adcock · May 23, 2019

dantheman said:
Have played this game whilst driving long journeys recently (and no children, small or otherwise in the car) Along with fruit, mammals, cars etc. Can go through a couple times before start getting too tricksy and move onto next category.

Have you tried memorising latin binomial bird names in order to get to sleep? ...

Try looking at car number plates to come up with bird names on long journeys e.g YNA could be Yellow-nosed Albatross.

Kratter · May 23, 2019

Even fewer genera begin with K than begin with X. Name 'em, and don't look it up!

dantheman · May 23, 2019

andyadcock said:
Try looking at car number plates to come up with bird names on long journeys e.g YNA could be Yellow-nosed Albatross.

There's an orange van ending BHG that we drive past every morning taking the OH to the station ...

Larry Sweetland · May 23, 2019

andyadcock said:
Try looking at car number plates to come up with bird names on long journeys e.g YNA could be Yellow-nosed Albatross.

That's a fun idea andy, never thought of that.

Andy Adcock · May 24, 2019

Larry Sweetland said:
That's a fun idea andy, never thought of that.

Here to serve B

JWN Andrewes · May 24, 2019

dantheman said:
There's an orange van ending BHG that we drive past every morning taking the OH to the station ...

Ground to a halt at six

Kittiwake, Knot, Kingfisher, Kingbird, Kagu, Kinglet...

Currently resisting the temptation to cheat! I'm sure I'll be kicking myself as others chip in.

EDIT - Kakapo, Kea, Kaka, Kokako - suddenly remembered New Zealand

JWN Andrewes · May 24, 2019

Kratter said:
Even fewer genera begin with K than begin with X. Name 'em, and don't look it up!

Ooops! The above post should have quoted this, not the bit about car license plates!

StuartReeves · May 24, 2019

I wonder if BF member Xenospiza has any ideas on this one?

Andy Adcock · May 24, 2019

JWN Andrewes said:
Ground to a halt at six

Kittiwake, Knot, Kingfisher, Kingbird, Kagu, Kinglet...

Currently resisting the temptation to cheat! I'm sure I'll be kicking myself as others chip in.

EDIT - Kakapo, Kea, Kaka, Kokako - suddenly remembered New Zealand

Kerguelen Petrel, King Penguin, Kelp Goose, King Eider, Trocaz Pigeon, Knysna Turaco, Knysna Woodpecker, Klaas's Cuckoo, King Vulture, Koepke's Screech owl.......

dantheman · May 24, 2019

andyadcock said:
Kerguelen Petrel, King Penguin, Kelp Goose, King Eider, Trocaz Pigeon, Knysna Turaco, Knysna Woodpecker, Klaas's Cuckoo, King Vulture, Koepke's Screech owl.......

?!?

JWN Andrewes said:
Ooops! The above post should have quoted this, not the bit about car license plates!

dantheman said:
There's an orange van ending BHG that we drive past every morning taking the OH to the station ...

Thought that was a bit bizarre lol! Always nice to be quoted though, even if a bit meaningless. Ta!

BHG is Black-headed Gull of course. OH is 'other half', although haven't really come up with a birding one. Ondulasian Hemipode?

Nutcracker · May 24, 2019

JWN Andrewes said:
Ground to a halt at six

Kittiwake, Knot, Kingfisher, Kingbird, Kagu, Kinglet...

Currently resisting the temptation to cheat! I'm sure I'll be kicking myself as others chip in.

EDIT - Kakapo, Kea, Kaka, Kokako - suddenly remembered New Zealand

I'm assuming "how many genera ..." means scientific genus names, not English names

Earnest lad · May 25, 2019

dantheman said:
Have.

Have you tried memorising latin binomial bird names in order to get to sleep? ...

I must try this out sometime but to be honest I think it will be more of a nightmare

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