wjansen wrote...
> I was surprised your list didn't include the common "meise" birds. These
> German chickadees were all over the Siegen area when I last visited
> Germany. The two most often seen by me were the Kohlmeise and the
> Blaumeise.

The Coal Tit is the Kohlmeise (Kohle = Coal); Blaumeise = Blue Tit.

Also a jay called Eichelhare (my German
> spelling is sorely lacking) was seen often as we strolled through the
The 'Eichelhaeher' (Eichel= acorn; haeher =?? maybe onomapoietic) is the
Jay on the list; as this is Europe, a lot of birds still walk around with
only one name.

Reto Riesen
Dept. Chem., UBC
Vancouver, B.C.
riesenr at chem.ubc.ca