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]