Where I grew up, in western Minnesota, it was "Scheidpoke".

Bill Kaufman
Woodinville



on 8/6/05 5:27 PM, Roger Olstad at rolstad at earthlink.net wrote:

> My Mother (many years dead now at an age of over 90) also referred to the
> Shypoke as a Slough Crane, but her preference was Shypoke....however we may
> have the spelling wrong, as I think it comes from a German word or
> expression, at least according to some German-American friends who also
> called them that.
>
> Roger Olstad
> Lake Forest Park
>
>> From: Mike Patterson <celata at pacifier.com>
>> Reply-To: celata at pacifier.com
>> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:07:26 -0700
>> To: themartins at tndmartin.com, Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>> Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Question From A Beginner
>>
>> The "official" standardized English name is American Dipper.
>> This is what the AOU calls it.
>>
>> Water Ouzel can be more properly referred to as a colloquial
>> name or local vernacular when used on American Dipper. Most
>> organisms on the planet has multiple colloquial names. Ouzel
>> for example means, according to "The dictionary of American
>> Bird Names", blackbird. It has been used colloquially for
>> European Blackbird and is still used for Ring Ouzel and the
>> European Water Ouzel (though Jonsson's "Birds of Europe" lists
>> list the latter as just Dipper).
>>
>> As you continue to build on your experience as a birders
>> listen for the following colloquial bird names:
>>
>> Speckle belly
>> Blue-bill
>> Mudhen
>> Shypoke
>> Buzzard
>> Fish hawk
>> Jack snipe
>> Goatsucker
>> Bee-martin
>>
>> And I have every confidence that others will contribute more
>> now that we've started.
>>
>> Subject: Question From A Beginner
>> From: "TipAndDick" <themartins AT tndmartin.com>
>> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:08:33 -0700
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My wife and I love this new hobby; it's grown on us over the past several
>> years, but we feel like baby beginners. This is our first post to this list.
>>
>> We stopped at Olallie State Park three days ago with the hope of seeing some
>> birds. We didn't see many, but we were thrilled to see an American dipper
>> and a barred kingfisher. It was our first time for seeing the dipper, and it
>> was a joy to watch. Later, a friend asked if the dipper is the same bird as
>> the water ouzel, and we discovered that it was.
>>
>> Could someone please tell us a little more about the reason for the two
>> common names for the same bird?
>>
>> Also, are there any folks on this list from NCW?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Patterson
>> Astoria, OR
>> celata at pacifier.com
>>
>> Beginner's Luck.... on the science and serendipity of finding stuff
>> http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/002787.html
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