Petition to rename this the black-bodied yellowbird
I believe you mean “Black-Breasted Yellow Tit”
Purple-headed purplebird…
I had to check and FFS
White-bellied purple tit
You mean white breasted purple tit.
White titted purple booby
Fr though that’s a cool bird
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.
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).
Edit: a word
Don’t forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
Can’t beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded
H+M = A?
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.
Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST)
Where does the ‘A’ come from?
The phonetic “faiv”?Not to mention “The Big Bang”, and " Spooky Action At a Distance"
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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
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”
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…
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 😆
Right. I felt uninformed and fighting the urge to go learn all about birds
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.
“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.”
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Ursus Arctos Arctos
Pica pica
Chuuuuuuuuu!
Orcinus orca
Wanna guess?
bubblegum ice cream flavored bird
It looks like a jerk, so green-tailed twat or something
Pink breasted bluey chirp
Lilac breasted roller
