When I started birding decades ago, some of the old-timers used this
venacular for American falcons:

Merlin = Pigeon Hawk
Peregrine Falcon = Duck Hawk
[American] Kestrel = Sparrow Hawk (a term used by Euros to for a species of
*accipter*)

My Uncle Dick used the term "Shikepoke" when IDing Great Blue Heron. I like
the word so I sometimes use it among friends.

Finally, is *plover* pronounced "pluh-ver" or "ploh-ver?" A poll here:
http://10000birds.com/ploverpronunciationpoll.htm rendered a 54% to 46% edge
to the former.

Steve Loitz
Seattle
steveloitz at gmail.com






On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Michael Schrimpf <
schrimpf at u.washington.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kevin Purcell <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>wrote:
>
>> Perhaps bird guide should include pronunciation guides too for those wacky
>> English (or Spanish) names.
>>
>>
> I have been confused by pronunciation on numerous occasions, and I am
> guessing that I am not the only one. Much of my original birding experience
> came from my own investigations - walking around the river next to my
> undergraduate college with a bird guide. I usually never had advanced
> birders there to pronounce names properly for me. Whenever I am birding
> with a more advanced birder, I usually still ask how he or she pronounces
> particular names - and I often get contradictory advice from different
> people. I am tempted to learn IPA, for no other reason than to make notes
> about bird names for myself...
>
> Michael Schrimpf
> Seattle
>
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