This isn’t everywhere. In German, many birds have pretty unique names: Amsel, Spatz, Kuckuck, Uhu, Eule and so on.
Those are blackbird, sparrow, cuckoo, eagle owl, owl. The one in the meme is a Gelbkopf-Schwarzstärling (“yellowhead blackstärling”)
So, not that different, I’d say.
You do have a point. Seems like there are quite a few “new” names in each language and then some weirdly descriptive ones for specific birds.
In Germany we have lots of names that are the descriptions. Stirnlappenbasilisk ist quite descriptive…
My favourite example of a straight-to-the-point animal name:
There’s a species of turtles. Goofy looking fellas with big heads. So what are they called? Big-headed turtles. OK, but surely the Latin name is sensible? No, it’s megacephalum. Totally a band name.
“Hey, this turtle looks kinda like it’s got a snake for a neck, what should we call it”
Petition to rename this the black-bodied yellowbird
I believe you mean “Black-Breasted Yellow Tit”
Gotta shout out birdle for all the bird-loving wordle fans out there.
That’s really cool! But those hints don’t help when I have no idea what order a bird is in 😆
Yeah I usually whip out Wikipedia and try to narrow down the family and genus by looking at the photos.
It’s kinda fun if you’re ever in the mood to spend 10-20 minutes researching different birds, lol.Right. I felt uninformed and fighting the urge to go learn all about birds
Purple-headed purplebird…
I had to check and FFS
Fr though that’s a cool bird
White-bellied purple tit
You mean white breasted purple tit.
White titted purple booby
I WOULD say that Lemmy jokes are on point today, but all the ones I’ve saved and sent to my family group chat are from the same Picard Maneuver lol
You got a good taste in jokes!We’re actually all just alts of The_Picard_Maneuver
Happy to help! Lol
Ornithologists should hang out with astronomers. They do the same naming scheme with telescopes. They’ve named some classics like the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).
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Can’t beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded
Not to mention “The Big Bang”, and " Spooky Action At a Distance"
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Don’t forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST)
Where does the ‘A’ come from?
The phonetic “faiv”?H+M = A?
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.
Bird names are either this or “yellow-boobied titcock” and there’s no in-between
My favorite is probably the Drab breasted bamboo tyrant
What about the Buff-Breasted Tody Tyrant? Buff breasts are admired by many.
“What are we going to call this railway line? It goes from Hammersmith to the City”
“… we’ll call it the Gliecksbaden Line, that should clear up any confusion.”
Wanna guess?
It looks like a jerk, so green-tailed twat or something
Lilac breasted roller
bubblegum ice cream flavored bird
Pink breasted bluey chirp
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Ursus Arctos Arctos
Orcinus orca
Pica pica
Chuuuuuuuuu!
