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From: cwilliamson@pimacc.pima.edu
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Trendy species nicnames
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.230421.6015@pimacc.pima.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 06:04:21 GMT
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I've heard MODO, TV, GBH since I met my wife in 1982 so 
there is no question in my mind what these mean. I'm surprised
though from the messages on this topic imply that others use
these just as freely.

How about BBP? 

There are some 'joke' birdnames we use quite alot...

Summer teenager
bush(beeps)   tits are censored!
Wood(beep)    cocks are censored!
(beep)mouse

Sometimes the sound the bird makes is somehow associated
with its nicname:

Gross'bick' for Grosbeak

I don't know how many times we've been driving, and see a
hawk, and then characterize it on seeing the belly-band (and dismiss it)
"Just a 'tail" for Redtail.

I've got a few personal ones. The silly getup of the
Acorn Woodpecker leads me to call them 'bozo birds'.

Chuck Williamson
Tucson Az
Cwilliamson@pimacc.pima.edu