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
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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).
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> 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.
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> Does anyone know some other weird and funny names for birds? I think I will start a "collection".
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> Laura Dornan
> Louisville, Stark Co.
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