Name a bird for each letter of the alphabet- (3 Viewers)

[dantheman]

Zapata Rail is a cool one 👍

Better than Dan's Cisticola * 😅

Edit:
* can be used for D in any future rounds

Ha. I call it Fan-tailed Warbler anyway ... Dan-tailed Warbler??

 

[Jos Stratford]

Ha. I call it Fan-tailed Warbler anyway ... Dan-tailed Warbler??

yep, nice sound to that, Dan-tailed it is 👍

 

[dantheman]

For a future round we could perhaps do that thing were we swap out a letter in a bird word to give a totally different meaning - it's been a thing on twitter for a while now (eg change a letter in a film), or maybe that is a separate game for a thread on here ...

(That one might be better with google/reference book to hand).


A straightforward round might be waders/shorebirds (with any gaps being filled by 'waterbirds'?) ... ??

 

[Jos Stratford]

Er?

You mean like replacing one letter to create a new word?

 

[01101001]

that should be difficult with bird names only

 

[dantheman]

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Think this might be too much hard work going through bird names alphabetically though!

 

[Jos Stratford]

that should be difficult with bird names only

Yes, that was my thinking

thrush - thrash
Wandering Albatross - ???

 

[dantheman]

Waders/Shorebirds (since no-one has started anything else!)


A - Avocet

 

[dantheman]

Yes, that was my thinking

thrush - thrash
Wandering Albatross - ???

Actually I have one for A

Andulasian hemipod

(Half a trendy camping shed in Spain.)

 

[WACCOE]

B-Baird's Sandpiper

 

[dantheman]

C - Cox's Sandpiper

Does that still count?? ;-)


EDIT: if not, then Curlew Sandpiper

 

[qwerty5]

D - Dunlin

 

[foresttwitcher]

E - Eurasian Curlew

 

[dantheman]

F - Far Eastern Curlew

 

[Jos Stratford]

E - Eurasian Curlew

I'll raise you to...

F Far Eastern Curlew

Edit ... I'm too slow!

 

[lgonz1008]

G - Gray-tailed Tattler

 

[foresttwitcher]

H - Hudsonian Godwit

 

[dantheman]

Actually I have one for A

Andulasian hemipod

(Half a trendy camping shed in Spain.)

B - Bitten

(What you get when staking out a mosquito-laden reedbed at dusk in the hope of a sighting of an elusive brown heron thing)

 

[01101001]

Ibisbill

 

[dantheman]

J - Jacana

(Jacana jacana = Northern Jacana)