not to mention the ever popular "Cowboy Duck" or Red-necked Grebe.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnson, Mary" <MJohnson at becu.org>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:51 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Colloquial bird names


Will you please tell us what the real names of these birds are? I do
know the goatsucker, but the rest are a mystery. Some others I like
are:

Thunderpump (Bittern)
Rain crow (Cuckoo)
Timberdoodle (Woodcock)

> the following colloquial bird names:
> Speckle belly
> Blue-bill
> Mudhen
> Shypoke
> Buzzard
> Fish hawk
> Jack snipe
> Goatsucker
> Bee-martin

Mary Johnson
Auburn, WA
mjohnson at becu.org



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