"Popular" misspelt bird names (5 Viewers)

[stevo]

Red necked phalaropee,common scooter are 2 more i`ve heard.


Steve.

 

[Clive A]

Once saw Perequine Falcon.

 

[SueO]

Lol, I just posted a bird on the ID forum that I wrote as Savannah Hawk--it's Savanna.
Sue

 

[MSA]

Wordbotching - a sign of a misspelt youth?

 

[Phil Carter]

Not a spelling mistake but my favourite mis-pronunciation.....Phallus's Warbler.

Phil

 

[MJB]

Me too - I also regret the demise of Palaearctic. Why has the Old World recently adopted a mostly New World spelling for part of the Old World? OK, it saves ink...

Meybe it wasn't just a dislike for a diphthong, just that no-one could spell diphthong...
MJB
PS OK, here are the definitions:
1.A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another...
2.A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat).

Some digraphs have fallen out of use; in older texts (and especially in old bibles) two previously common were æ and œ

 

[alex berryman]

Can't believe people have missed this out! :

Tarmigan (Ptarmigan)

 

[Richard Klim]

Not a spelling mistake but my favourite mis-pronunciation.....Phallus's Warbler.

The same speech impediment would unfortunately result in Phartridge, which sounds positively phlatulent!

 

[Richard Klim]

Meybe it wasn't just a dislike for a diphthong, just that no-one could spell diphthong...
MJB
PS OK, here are the definitions:
1.A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another...
2.A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat).

Some digraphs have fallen out of use; in older texts (and especially in old bibles) two previously common were æ and œ

Mike, you'll probably get banned for repeatedly, but wholly unsuccessfully, trying to raise the tone of BirdForum discussions.

 

[Paruula]

I've seen plenty of "guillemonts".

 

[Larry Lade]

I once heard from a dear lady that she had a RED-BELLIED GOOSEBEAK coming to her bird feeder! (Rose-breasted Grosbeak) (* Saint Joseph, Missouri)

 

[Larry Lade]

Just though of another one I have heard/read a couple of times "Pie-billed Grebe" for Pied-billed Grebe.

And, a few more: Ospray, Loggerheaded Shrike, Scissor-tail (Scissortail) Flycatcher.

OK, Ospray for Osprey, I can sort of understand. But, we have Loggerhead Shrike and Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. You might understand why some people do become confused!

 

[billsbirding]

Little Bastard (no offense anyone)

 

[Kits]

Greater Spotted Woodpecker instead of Great Spotted.

 

[fugl]

Dessert Wheatear (title of active thread in the RBI forum & why oh why aren't misspellings of this sort ever corrected by the mods?)

 

[Xenospiza]

Then again, since you have a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Greater makes more sense (and major means greater, not great). But to be fair, Great ↔ Lesser is also used for Kiskadee, Grey Shrike and Elaenia.
I can’t find an example of the juxtaposition of Greater and Little though!

 

[Tiraya]

I've seen Swon and Chickady before. Kestral I've seen in older books.

(South Polar) Skewer, I haven't seen it written this way but when it was called on the PA during a pelagic I was thinking of the kitchen tool first for some odd reason.

Not quite as funny as when my old school friend thought birds had four legs however. :-O

 

[Richard Klim]

I can’t find an example of the juxtaposition of Greater and Little though!

Until recently AOU had Greater and Little Shearwaters, but Greater was revised to Great in July 2010.

 

[JDatchens]

Sandling...

 

[MJB]

Dessert Wheatear (title of active thread in the RBI forum & why oh why aren't misspellings of this sort ever corrected by the mods?)

Anyone prepared to set a spelling test for the mods?:eek!::eek!::eek!:
MJB