Hi,
Traditionally Herons, especially Green and the Night Herons are Shite-poke
for their habit of pooping when startled.
Butterball- Bufflehead
Bald Pate- Wigeon
Bluebill- Duddy Ruck
Sawbill - Merganser
Gooseander - Merganser
Helldiver- Grebe
John Crow - Turkey Vulture
Chicken Hawk - Copper's Hawk
Redbird- Cardinal
More contemporary
Dolphin - Warbling Vireo
My favorites from Portugal:
o pássaro que você pode manter, se você pegar , or que voce manter, voce
pegar The bird you can keep if you catch him - Pied Wagtail
a guarda do rio, the guard of the river - Kingfisher
Haans
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Charles Crawford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When I was growing up in southern Illinois the locals called it
> Shyke-poke. I finally realized they were talking about at that time
> Green-backed Herons, now just Green Herons.
>
>
> Speckle-bellies or Specks: Greater White-fronted Geese as named by hunters
>
>
> Charlie
> Henderson KY
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
> Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at
> www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.
>
> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
> http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Laura Dornan wrote:
>
> > This morning Tim & I went to watch our local Osprey nest and while we
> had the scope lined up on the nest on the top of the cell tower, a neighbor
> lady came out to see what we were looking at. She asked if we were looking
> at a "shy-poke". We told her we were looking at Ospreys and then asked
> what the heck is a shy-poke? We had never heard that name. She replied it
> is a crane, by which we figured she actually meant a Great Blue Heron. A
> lot of people around here call herons cranes. When we asked where she had
> learned that name, she said from her husband who was in the military and
> traveled around a lot. So goodness knows where the name might be
> colloquial to. Has anyone ever heard that name in reference to herons (or
> any other bird).
> >
> > Thinking about where the name shy-poke came from got me to thinking
> about all the other weird names some birds have. The 1st that come to mind
> are the myriad names for the Woodcock: timberdoodle, bog sucker, mud bat,
> blind snipe, night partridge, & my favorite, Labrador twister. Then there
> are lots of ducks that have colloquial nick-names, though I can only think
> of 2 right now: baldpate for Am. Wigeon and butterball for Ruddy Duck.
> >
> > Does anyone know some other weird and funny names for birds? I think I
> will start a "collection".
> >
> > Laura Dornan
> > Louisville, Stark Co.
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
> > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
> > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at
> www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.
> >
> > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
> > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
> > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
> Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at
> www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.
>
> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
> http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
>
______________________________________________________________________
Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.
Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.
You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
|
