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[–] anotherpurpleheathen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Hehehe. Amazing birb names. There was a woodcock in my parents yard one winter. It was so cute! Took us a couple of minutes to figure out what bird it was, we'd never seen it before. It was so busy out there. First it completely flattened itself like a dead leaf when it saw my dad, then when it felt safe, it started fanning it feathers out like a miniature turkey and rotating, it did a little display. (Not sure if it was a mating dance or something else but very cute.) We didn't see it do the walk. But ever since that encounter and after learning they do a little jiggling dance when they walk (via youtube), they are one of my favourite birds now.

[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

Awesome! I love the Great Tit!

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 16 hours ago

Ornithologists must have been very horny when they named those birds.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago

This is so funny; I wish birds were real.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

i can't find the original so here it is from memory:

There are 3 types of bird names:

  • Hotbreasted tushmilf
  • Green Warbler
  • Jacksons Great Magnificent Coolbird
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Great magnificent coolbird

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

You may put an ! at the beggining to embed the image

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you ever taken the time to really appreciate the jizz of a woodcock?

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

Jeneral impression, zize and zhape

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

I will never forget my fil happily telling the family he saw some great tits in the garden that morning.

A good laugh was had

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hornitology is always how I remember it

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago

Still can't compete with geology

It took me a full week in GEOL 0220 to figure out that the word my teacher kept saying was not "Erogeny"

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No, no, that's snooker.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Biggus Dickus