Lydia_KSomeone should really do something
Snot FlickermanSomebody is doing something and that something is naming birds awesome names.
Reminds me of when my late FIL happily announced he had seen “some great tits in the garden earlier today”
I could not contain the giggles and was considered most immature. Everyone else was trying not to laugh as well tho.
I used to work at a company involved in breast cancer screening, and one of the skills I learned on that job was how to say the word “breast” without giggling. It was a small startup so we had some interesting people, including a woman who, when discussing how the machine worked, would just grab one of her own breasts through her shirt and start poking it.
Taxonomists: hold my Astragalus tastybeeriensis
Meanwhile, bird names in Danish (translated to english):
Sun black (black bird)
Ice bird (king fisher)
Red chest
Perl owl
Night owl
Blue chest
Gray fly snapper
White chested fly snapper
It’s on the list of epstein file distractions. It’s way down there, but don’t worry, it’s on the list.
At work, I have built a tool that creates Linux images on demand. Long story short, I decided to give them a human readable alias. Told my colleagues that image aliases are generated from a hand-picked pool of bird names, did not elaborate further
I am looking forward to see the face of the first person to discover rough-faces-shag or cock-tailed-tyrant :^)
bogsucker
American Ornithological Society Will Change the English Names of Bird Species Named After People - American Ornithological Society
Today the AOS announced that in an effort to address past wrongs and engage far more people in the enjoyment, protection, and study of birds, it will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction.
I hope they change Say’s Phoebe just because it’s annoying to say, no one understands when you say it’s name, it’s name easily leads to confusion.
finallymadeanaccountI done had me a case of the hoary puffleg the other night, dagnabbit.
Stiffy