Subject: [Tweeters] Re: duck nick names
Date: Jan 1 08:37:22 2005
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


The old Peterson's guides included many of the common
vernacular names. The best source is Kortright's _Ducks,
Geese and Swans of North America_ (out of print but fairly
easy to find in used bookstores).

Redhead is not listed in Kortright as a "blue bill", it
most commonly refers to scaup (both Greater and Lesser).
If you ask a duck hunter to point out a bluebill, they
usually point to scaup. I have heard it applied to Ruddy
Duck as well and Kortright lists it as "in local use".

Anybody who owns an American birdbook older than 2000 won't
find Long-tailed Duck. Oldsquaw is more than a nickname...

And now the quiz (an exercise in why the AOU standardizes names),
identify the following:
-Speckle-belly
-Whistler
-Bald Brant
-Summer Duck
-Butterball
-Hell's Chicken
-Blue Streak
-Coot
-Sawbill



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Subject: duck nick names?
From: "Dawn Bailey" <dawnsdog AT rainierconnect.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:30:43 -0800

Hi Tweets,

are Redhead ducks, nick named blue bills? (would make sense)

in the olden days growing up in Washington State we called Long Tailed
Ducks,
Old Squaw guess that also was a nick name.


thanks in advance

Dawn Bailey
Eatonville, WA
mailto:dawnsdog AT rainierconnect.com
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Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

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