100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time

bookofjoe 44 points 10 comments June 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

hiyer

My next 100 passwords are sorted.

dwagnerkc

Predicted Antwren is a new favorite. How interesting.

SommaRaikkonen

Inaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be

krylon

The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.

Kaliboy

Oh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.

fat_cantor

Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned

pseudohadamard

The Morepork is named after the sound it makes, you can listen to it here, https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/morepork . OTOH some other birds named after their call like the Hadada sound nothing like it.

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