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From: mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: name that bird!
Keywords: mysteries, identification
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Date: 3 Aug 89 16:28:27 GMT
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In article <8867@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, dmark@cs.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark) writes:
 > Some of my favorite posting in the past have been: "I just saw a black
 > bird with a yellow head-- what could it have been??"

	A friend of mine, who lives in Carson City, had been seeing a
bird that he never saw before then. He asked me what it was and described
it as "a black bird with a yellow head". When I told him that it was a
Yellow Headed Blackbird, he just laughed. I guess he thought that I was
joking.

	It seems that a number of birds are named for the vocalizations
that they make, that is, the sound of the bird's name is supposed to
represent the sound that the bird makes. For instance, the Killdeer is
so named because it makes a sound something like "kill-dee". As an 
interesting quiz for you netters: how many North American birds can you
think of that meet this criterion?

Mike

P.S. it seemed that this news group was dead and then, I turned around and
suddenly there's postings all over the place. Glad to see it.