Wordie: Still More Bird Wirds: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 11 days ago

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:48:23 +0000

Already listed, mollusque. :-)

Comment by frogapplause, 11 days ago

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:15:40 +0000

leucistic gadwall

Comment by mollusque, about 1 month ago

Sun, 11 May 2008 01:13:31 +0000

How about tomtit, which is not only a bird, but a kind of boat.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 month ago

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:23:12 +0000

And good for you, rolig! As I mention above, this list will probably never be finished, but I'm always happy to add to it. :-)

Dontcry, thanks for the mojito. You're right--they certainly deserve to be world-famous. *calmer now*

Comment by rolig, 2 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:07:22 +0000

I have to say, I was surprised that I listed glede before you did, reesetee. I came across it via my Literati addiction.

Comment by dontcry, 2 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:45:46 +0000

Sorry, r. I read too quickly and saw "still more birds" and of course, i went, you know....there... Here, have a mojito to calm your nerves ;-).

Comment by reesetee, 2 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:59:57 +0000

Whaaa...? ME?? Good grief, no!

Comment by dontcry, 2 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:03 +0000

Oh, thank God! When I read the title of this list, I thougt you were offing birds!

Comment by reesetee, 2 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:01:12 +0000

Thanks, m!

Comment by mollusque, 2 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 02:33:34 +0000

Merl.

Comment by reesetee, 3 months ago

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:17:37 +0000

Good one, mollusque--thanks!

Comment by mollusque, 3 months ago

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:03:39 +0000

How about urubu?

Comment by reesetee, 3 months ago

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:19:43 +0000

Already have cockatiel listed, m, but I'll add this too. Thanks.

Comment by mollusque, 3 months ago

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:17:44 +0000

How about quarrion?

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:39:18 +0000

*giggles*

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:16:00 +0000

Uh oh. That's an idea for another bird list! Shall we?

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:57:23 +0000

Simorgh appears in Persian poetry, though it's mythical.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:51:21 +0000

Thank you! They go nicely with chiffchaff, gang-gang, and weet-weet. :-)

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:40:41 +0000

More monovocalic birds: torotoro and zoozoo.

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:51:03 +0000

Thanks, mollusque!

Comment by mollusque, 6 months ago

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:40:07 +0000

How about kagu?

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:06:25 +0000

That's it! I'm making a "bird nicknames" list. Sionnach, that'll be the first one on it. :-)

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:04:37 +0000

Then there is the welsh ambassador.

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:31:29 +0000

Good one, mollusque! Did you know that it was spelled eeeeve back in the 1700s? (Just looked it up.) That's a lot of Es.

By the way, I added it to "More Bird Wirds" instead of this list--that one's for the States. :-)

Comment by mollusque, 7 months ago

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:03:24 +0000

How about iiwi?

Comment by mollusque, 7 months ago

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:45:17 +0000

How many bats would a wombat bat if a wombat could bat bats in combat?

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:57:11 +0000

That's because a) it's far from being an exhaustive list of bird names (I'm still adding to it), and b) it's one of several bird lists I've made. Some of the ones you name are on "More Bird Wirds." The others I shall duly add. Thanks, bilby!

Oh, by the way--the "respectable" words are what I'm shooting for here. :-) Nicknames might end up being a whole other list.

Comment by bilby, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:41:22 +0000

I can't find any of the following in your list: wagtail, skua, kingfisher, cockatoo, galah, gang-gang, brolga, jacana, darter, ibis and jabiru. A few Australian ones in there but they're all respectable words.

Oh woe! Our wallaby lobbing lobby is oddly wobbly!

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:28:16 +0000

I'd go to bat for combat wombats, especially if they're Tibetan combat wombats. ;-)

Welsh birders? Not I!

Comment by sionnach, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:37:15 +0000

> nor would I lobby for Wallaby Lobbing

But how do you feel about combat wombats?

Has Wordie been taken over by some splinter group of Welsh birders?

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:23:07 +0000

Really? An actual bird name? I always thought it was just a nickname, like our little brown jobs here in the States. :-)

Bilby, I don't truck with chucking marsupials, nor would I lobby for Wallaby Lobbing. ;-)

Comment by bilby, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:09:43 +0000

Sheesh, everyone seems to want to chuck our marsupials around. See quokka. We probably missed the boat by failing to lobby for Wallaby Lobbing as an Olympic sport.

Comment by mollusque, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:44:01 +0000

According to OED2, weet-weet is the sound of both a chaffinch and a sandpiper, but also the name of a sandpiper and a kangaroo-rat.

From one of the quotations "A peculiar toy is the weet-weet or ‘kangaroo-rat’, which the practised player can throw to enormous distances."

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:24:17 +0000

Isn't that a chaffinch, mollusque?

Comment by mollusque, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:23:59 +0000

How about weet-weet, a kind of sandpiper?

Comment by reesetee, 7 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:55:22 +0000

Thanks, mollusque! As you might guess, this list is a work in progress. :-)

Comment by mollusque, 7 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:50:29 +0000

How about fernbird, from New Zealand?

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:23:36 +0000

For all you bird lovers: cockyolly bird an expression meaning "dear little bird," used both about birds and as an endearment. It is a variant of dicky-bird.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:41:51 +0000

I like bristlehead and wrybill myself. They sound like stand-up comedians. :-)

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:06:19 +0000

My favorites: chough, rook, apostle bird

They just look so sassy.