Bird Name Folly
I used to put these on the FB Birdmisidentification page,
But one day I made a suggestion and they were abusive and called me
"butt hurt" and threw me out and I found that one of the admins was in trouble
with the law for stalking people and she was a nut.

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Like this one:
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Lark Bunting
This problem is rife in the bird world. Here are just a few that I have noted:

1.  Lark bunting. What evidence is there that the bird ever even played baseball -- much less did any bunting???
 
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CANADA GOOSE           WHO COOKS FOR YOU?


        2.   Similarly MOURNING doves? Rubbish. They can be seen at noon and all through the afternoon!


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Western Tanning Salon

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Middle-of-the-Night Heron
Wring-neck Duck
Indian Summer Tanager
Fierce-blowing Nightingale
Mid-Morning Doves
Early Winter Wren
Late Evening Grosbeak
Mountain Time Zone-Tailed Hawk
Great Blue Herring
Hard of Herring Gull
Herman's Hermit Warbler
Wish They All Could Be California Gulls
Hooded Mergie
Roadrumdumb
House Wrench
Cactus Wrench
American Diesel
Greater Lesserlegs
Citizen's band Thrasher
West Wing Kingbird
Slash-throated Flycatcher
Abert's Tamale
Rosanna Danna Savanna Sparrow
Northern Rough House Swallow
Laurence Olivier Warbler
Great Horse Owl
Double-bladed Cormorant
Turnkey Vulture
To My Great Egret
Slow Egret
Cityman Teal
Least of my troubles sandpiper

       
INCA DOVE

HERMIT WARLBER

        3.  Greater roadrunner? There’s, like, only one species, so how can he be greater than something that doesn’t even exist??
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Ringed Turtledove

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CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE
        4. Canvasback. Friend, they look like feathers to me. Just sayin’.
       
Mountain Plover

        5.  House wren, house finch, house sparrow etc. Have you ever actually SEEN any one of these birds in somebody’s house?             
Ridiculous!
KILLDEER



KILLDEER

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        Ladder-backed Woodpecker

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6.  Summer tanager. Oh, yeah like they all die in the fall.
       
Chuck Will's Widow


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REDHEAD


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    PIPING PLOVER
HA HA
        7.  Bullock’s oriole. Ha ha. Well, birds don’t even have them -- at least any visible  ones -- so why the smart aleck name?

Norwegian Wood Pigeon
       
SOCIAL FLYCATCHER


HORNED LARK


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FOX SPARROW
    
   8.  Baltimore oriole. Come on! Don’t tell me they don’t live in lots and lots of other cities.
       
RED CROSSBILL

        9.  Cedar waxwing. Well, which IS it now? Are the wings made of cedar or wax? Make up your mind!
       
OLIVE WARBLER


WOOD DUCK


        10.  Spotted towhee, spotted sandpiper. That’s just bird watcher boasting. Lots of these birds are never spotted in their entire lives. I’ll bet that half of them are never seen by a human being at all!
       
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        11.  Lincoln’s sparrow. There is not one shred of evidence that Abraham Lincoln ever as much as laid eyes on one of these birds.
       
Pied Wagtail

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        12.  Hermit thrush? Yeah like he lives in some isolated shack on a hill in Kentucky.
       
Scrub Jay

        13.  Magnificent frigatebird. Be clear. Which is magnificent -- the bird or the frigate? Gad!
       
LINCOLN SPARROW

       14.  Hepatic tanager. There is nothing in the literature to suggest that there is anything special about their livers.
       
Ovenbird

        15.  Common Loon and Blue-footed Booby? Some names are just mean and insulting and nothing more. Can't we all just get along here?
       
BONAPARTE'S GULL


        16.  American oystercatcher. Does one have to actually CATCH an oyster?  I mean they’re stuck to the rocks. Please.
       
CHIPPING SPARROW

        17.  Whip-poor-will. I’ll bet money that none of these birds ever whipped anybody, much less “poor Will.” Who the heck is Will, anyway--and why is he so special that we should care if he gets whipped by a goatsucker or not?

Rhinoceros Auklet

18.  Curve-billed Thrasher? Oh, don't get me started. He doesn't thrash with his curved bill. They have the wrong WORD, man. He is separating the seeds from the chaff with his bill. That's THRESHING not THRASHING. Why don't they get a dictionary for goodness' sake? The bird should be called a Curve-billed THRESHER!


Nashville Warbler
19.  Killdeer? They're too small to kill a mouse. A deer? Give me a break.

20. Greater Pewee? Makes no sense!

CARRION CROW

  


CINNAMON TEAL


PARASITIC JAEGER






 


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Yellow-breasted Chet  2.jpg      Great Blue Herring.jpg  They usually say blue heron or blue herring


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1.  Lark bunting. What evidence is there that the bird ever even played baseball -- much less did any bunting???
2.   Similarly MOURNING doves? Rubbish. They can be seen at noon and in the late afternoon.
3.  Greater roadrunner? There’s, like, only one species, so how can he be greater than something that doesn’t even exist??
4. Canvasback. Friend, they look like feathers to me. Just sayin’.
5.  House wren, house finch, house sparrow etc. Have you ever actually SEEN any one of these birds in somebody’s house?   
 6.  Summer tanager. Oh, yeah like they all die in the fall.
7.  Bullock’s oriole. Ha ha. Well, birds don’t even have them -- at least any visible  ones -- so why the smart aleck name?
8.  Baltimore oriole. Come on! Don’t tell me they don’t live in lots and lots of other cities.
9.  Cedar waxwing. Well, which IS it now? Are the wings made of cedar or wax? Make up your mind!
10.  Spotted towhee, spotted sandpiper. That’s just bird watcher boasting. Lots of these birds are never spotted in their entire lives. I’ll bet that half of them are never seen by a human being at all!
11.  Lincoln’s sparrow. There is not one shred of evidence that Abraham Lincoln ever as much as laid eyes on one of these birds.
12.  Hermit thrush? Yeah like he lives in some isolated shack on a hill in Kentucky.
13.  Magnificent frigatebird. Be clear. Which is magnificent -- the bird or the frigate? Gad!
14.  Hepatic tanager. There is nothing in the literature to suggest that there is anything special about their livers.
15.  Common Loon and Blue-footed Booby? Some names are just mean and insulting and nothing more. Can't we all just get along here?
16.  American oystercatcher. Does one have to actually CATCH an oyster?  I mean they’re stuck to the rocks. Please.
17.  Whip-poor-will. I’ll bet money that none of these birds ever whipped anybody, much less “poor Will.” Who the heck is Will, anyway--and why is he so special that we should care if he gets whipped by a goatsucker or not?
 18.  Curve-billed Thrasher? Oh, don't get me started. He doesn't thrash with his curved bill. They have the wrong WORD, man. He is separating the seeds from the chaff with his bill. That's THRESHING not THRASHING. Why don't they get a dictionary for goodness' sake? The bird should be called a Curve-billed THRESHER!
 19.  Killdeer? They're too small to kill a mouse. A deer? Give me a break.
 20. Greater Pewee? Makes no sense!