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To: Olog-hai

The same perverts who name bird species apparently.

Fluffy backed tit babbler?

Brown boobies?

European shag?

Big breasted tit?

Southern screamer?

Great tits?

Woodcock?

Red shafted flicker?

Andean cock-of-the-rock?


6 posted on 02/07/2023 3:30:18 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

Your fourth example seems to not be a real bird.

In “tit(mouse)”, the first syllable comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “small”; hence, “titmase” means small bird. Most of the examples of these birds are referred to as chickadees in the US.

There was no vulgar use of the word “shag” originally, since it came from an old Nordic word meaning “wool”. The species of cormorant referred to would refer to the shaggy appearance of the bird’s crest.

Second last bird named is more commonly known as the northern flicker; the last-named bird is also called the tunki.


7 posted on 02/07/2023 3:46:05 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Jewbacca

That was hilarious!


18 posted on 02/07/2023 5:02:58 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Jewbacca

You left “Tufted Tit Mouse’’.


23 posted on 02/07/2023 10:54:34 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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