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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Trendy species nicnames
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.091921@Unify.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 16:19:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.004109.8828@crl.dec.com>
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In article <1991Apr15.004109.8828@crl.dec.com>, herlihy@crl.dec.com (Maurice
Herlihy) writes:
> From: herlihy@crl.dec.com (Maurice Herlihy)
> Subject: Trendy species nicnames
> Date: 15 Apr 91 00:41:09 GMT
> Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
> 
> 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?

Hugo		Hudsonian Godwit
Margo		Marbled Godwit
Sharpie		Sharp-shinned Hawk
Dickey Bird	Anything small and unidentified
Shoulder	Red-shouldered Hawk
Tail		Red-tailed Hawk
Coop		Cooper's Hawk
Mudpecker	Any dowitcher	(I think my birding group in NJ invented this)
Dump Buzzard	Any gull	(I think this is Peter Dunne's)
Butter Butt	Yellow-rumped Warbler
#%^&@		Anything you want to id but can't

and of course

Empid		Any unidentified Empidonax
Peep		Any unidentified sandpiper
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