Bird names that make non-birders giggle (1 Viewer)

[Bird Boy]

Red-shafted Flicker
Blue-footed Booby
any Tit (an American thing)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Clark's Nutcracker (ouch)
Woodcock
I know there are more.
My favorite is the Wandering Tattler. Man, you just can't tell them anything without it getting around. Giggle, giggle.

 

[Lmc3598]

Some others are
European shag
Blue tit (we have tits here too)
Cockatoo

 

[Cleme]

Yes, tits and shags in the UK as we'd never see a booby here... and bearded tits have everyone falling around. One or two books try to call them bearded reedlings but it's never going to catch on, is it?

We've resorted to calling them baardmans when in among the reedbeds - the Dutch name - as it's quite fun and avoids any titilation!

 

[Hotspur]

The very best in the world is rough-faced shag. No questions.

 

[Bird Boy]

We don't dare call them tits here, they are known as Chickadees. Oddly, there are wrentit, titmouse and, do I dare say? Bushtit..

In an episode of "I Love Lucy", she claimed to have been bitten by a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.

 

[Bird Boy]

I was just informed that we rarely get a Siberian Tit here. Burrr... I thought it was just happy to see me.

 

[Mari E]

In UK, yep, people laugh at tits, particularly 'bearded tits'

Also not a bird but apparently the 'fat balls' are getting some giggles from teenagers

 

[ta brandreth]

in the throws of Migrant spotting two years ago I typed 'Swallow - first date?' into the Google search engine...

wouldn't recommend it in polite company :eek!:

 

[Cheshire Birder]

What about an eastern one - Sombre Tit?

CB

 

[Matt_RTH]

Watch out for that dickcissel - it's a doozy (so I hear)

 

[Bird Boy]

Watch out for that dickcissel - it's a doozy (so I hear)

I had forgotten about the Dickcissel. I belly crawled 1/4 of a mile across a field to get a pic of a Dickcissel. (Will that statement be on the net, now?)

I photographed some birds on fat balls for a company based in the UK. (Will that statement be on the net, too?). Do they come in blue? Fat balls with a Hairy Woodpecker...no surprise, there.

 

[James Thomas]

Difficult to get past Penduline Tits

http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/penduline.jpg

 

[David FG]

Difficult to get past Penduline Tits

http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/penduline.jpg

At my age, certainly...


Sorry.

 

[Bird Boy]

Engaland swings like a Penduline do?

 

[Stratton Birder]

If you was out for a beer with a non-birder and told them that earlier in the day you'd had a brief glimpse of an unidentified Turdus you might get a funny look!!

 

[Bird Boy]

If you was out for a beer with a non-birder and told them that earlier in the day you'd had a brief glimpse of an unidentified Turdus you might get a funny look!!

Then, ask him if he knows how to tell when one is sitting next to a Turdus...

 

[Joseph N]

Andean and Guinean Cock-of-the-rock have always been favourites with me and have been popular amongst my mates that I've told the name to.

Joseph

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

When you mention you saw brown boobies on your trip to the Caribbean...

And a friend and I used to greet each other with "How's your dickcissel?"

But the worst is telling someone you saw a great tit on a trip to Asia. The response often is "just one?"

 

[Mysticete]

I enjoyed commenting on how common Japanese Tits were during my time in Tokyo; also saw quite a few Varied Tits...

 

[paul Robinson]

Brown Boobies make me giggle, never mind non-birders.
You could make them up in pub conversation too...Barge-Arsed Swamphen or Thick Headed Wrattlewren.
Paul