Who birdwatches the birdwatchers?

[redscharlach]

It's quiz time, viewers, and this week your specialist subject is Birds With Naughty Names. This is because I recently chanced across some wonderful ornithological nomenclature in various books and am now keen to promote it to anyone who will listen. After all, why be content with a Common Shag when you could have a Fulvous-Chinned Nunlet or a

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[sabra_n]

The blue-footed boobie was a favorite of mine when I was a kid.

[westdean]

and mine - you could endlessly annoy adults by saying it.

[redscharlach]

Boobies are definitely a classic of the genre, but just a tad too well-known to qualify for a place in this quiz. (I bet they are all sulking on their rocks in resentment at me.)

[scifinut]

Sapsuckers were always my favorites to hear about. Trufax.

[kazzy_cee]

OOoo - so hard!!!

[alkari]

The Blue-footed booby? Oh yes - and there's a Red-footed one, and a Masked Booby as well.

The Bar-tailed Godwit and the Double-eyed Fig Parrot remind me of characters thrown out of a pub at closing time, while I'm sure that the Wandering Tattler and the Lesser Yellowlegs have escaped from a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

And of course, I have always wondered about the Imperial Shag ... :D

[alkwing]

Feel the urge to use this icon

Really have no clue but made a wild guess ;)
English birdnames are cool :D

[redscharlach]

Great icon, and somehow made more amusing by the fact that one of the birds looks dead...