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From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Trendy species nicnames
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.204747.22862@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 20:47:47 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.004109.8828@crl.dec.com>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1991Apr15.004109.8828@crl.dec.com> herlihy@crl.dec.com (Maurice Herlihy) writes:
>Just for fun, I'd like to assemble a list of currently hip :-) species nicnames.
>Some starters:
>	tee vee		Turkey Vulture
>	modo		Mourning Dove
>	winter chippie	American Tree Sparrow
>	GBH		Great Blue Heron		(may be dated)
>Any others?

Let's see, I've heard "mocker" for the Northern Mockingbird and "bend over"
for Bendire's Thrasher.  My favorite is "butterbutt" for the Yellow-rumped
Warbler.  I also like the "violent green swallow"  (Violet-Green Swallow).
A couple ornithologists I know use "trash bird" for those sticks and bags
and bits of plastic that look like a bird until you get them in your binocs.

-- 
"We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds - the booby and the noddy....
Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors,
that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer."
(Charles Darwin)       Kathleen Hunt / jespah@milton.u.washington.edu