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[-] carotte 28 points 2 days ago

its that joke about there being 4 kinds of names for birds:

  • God’s Specialest Little Boy
  • Horncocked Boobtit
  • Blue Bird With White Head
  • Jeremy’s Fingernail
[-] SoleInvictus 8 points 2 days ago

Ahh yes, this reminds me of my favorite bird, the Deepthroated Cockwomble.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago

I'm not good with ornithology. Is the fourth one meant to signifiy there's a tendency in ornithology to name a bird after your own name and a body part ?

[-] carotte 6 points 2 days ago

not a body part specifically (that’s just what the original meme im shamelessly and badly stealing used), but yea there is a tendency to name birds So-and-so’s Something

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago

Ornithologists have two modes when naming things: blunt descriptive and horny

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Bird names are all either, "red-breasted blackbird," or, "deep-throated cum-tit." There's no in-between.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I like to imagine all birds were named by a single elderly couple, Evelyn and Wallace. Evelyn put a lot of thought and poetry into naming them, like the Nightingale, the Scarlet Tanager, the Indigo Bunting and the Cedar Waxing. Then we have Wallace. Wallace brought us the Blackbird, the Barn Owl, and the Woodpecker.

[-] TotallynotJessica 18 points 3 days ago
[-] Metafalls_@beehaw.org 11 points 2 days ago

Both of them in unison, surely

[-] Almonds@mander.xyz 21 points 3 days ago

The red-wing blackbird doesn't have red wing(s).

I rest my case

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 26 points 3 days ago

It clearly has red on its wings.

Yes it's orangish red, but have you ever heard of an animal called "Orange-something" no, because scientists can't see orange.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago

Orange as a color is a fairly recent concept in the English language. Red hair is more orange than red too.

[-] Almonds@mander.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

My joke is that the wings aren't fully red.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Orangeutan? (J/k if it isn’t obv)

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It could have been named before orange was.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 19 points 3 days ago

At least it actually describes obvious features in language that is understandable in present-day English.

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Yea, it's probably better than "[random person]'s warbler"

[-] nimble 8 points 2 days ago

You could learn the binomial name: Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Xanthocephalus, from Greek Xanthous, meaning yellow, and cephalos, meaning head (compare with "cephalopod" meaning head-foot). That's right. The binomial name is also just "that thing with the yellow head"

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Note: "xanthocephalus" is Greek for "yellow head".

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago
[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

My favorite binomial name is for the common black rat, whose binomial name is Rattus rattus. Shit sounds like someone making shit up on the spot without knowing how Latin works.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

gorilla gorilla gorilla 🦍

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago
[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

I'm just surprised it wasn't named after some private part that birds don't even have.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 3 days ago

I would have called it a black bodied yellow bird.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Billy Idol ass bird

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