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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