Essentially, most local names are nicknames, picking out some feature of the bird such as shape, call, preferred habitat or nest site. If, for example, you know what a coulter is and what a neb is, you should have no difficulty matching 13.
01 | Alp or Olp | A | Bittern |
02 | Aberdevine | B | Blackbird |
03 | Beam Bird | C | Blue Tit |
04 | Billy Biter | D | Bullfinch |
05 | Bessy Blakeling | E | Corn Bunting |
06 | Butter Bump | F | Eider |
07 | Carr Goose | G | Garganey |
08 | Chickerel | H | Great Crested Grebe |
09 | Clot Bird | I | Long-tailed Duck |
10 | Coal-and-Candle-Light | J | Puffin |
11 | Colly Bird | K | Siskin |
12 | Corn Dumpling | L | Spotted Flycatcher |
13 | Coulter Neb | M | Wheatear |
14 | Cricket Teal | N | Whimbrel |
15 | Cushat | O | Wood Pigeon |
16 | Cuthbert Duck | P | Yellowhammer |
4 comments:
Using Brother Cat's "List of Pointmouths I Wish to Bite", I figured out the following:
02 Aberdevine = K Sisken
03 Beam Bird = L Spotted Flycatcher
04 Billy Biter = C Blue Tit
06 Butter Bump = A Bittern
07 Carr Goose = Great Crested Grebe
10 Coal-and-Candle-Light = I Long-tailed Duck
11 Colly Bird = B Blackbird
12 Corn Dumpling = E Corn Bunting
13 Coulter Neb = J Puffin
14 Cricket Teal = G Garganey
15 Cushat = O Wood Pigeon
16 Cuthbert Duck = F Eider
Four of the birds weren't on his list. I won't speculate as to why.
You definitely get a gold star for that, Dixie! As a former teacher, I have no choice but to make the next quiz much harder. Yeah!
Jake
Well done, Dixie. I must make the next test a lot harder!
I particularly like coal-and-candle-light, which is supposed to be a rendering of the call of the Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw).
Who is the Bessy Blakeling, though?
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