Posted on 06/09/2021 4:05:09 PM PDT by blueplum
LOL, I have no idea. I figured I had a 50-50 chance...I guess I missed!
We really need to put lunatics back in hospitals.
What about the Lesser Tit?
“Will we get new pages to insert in our bird books...”
you’ll have to buy volumes
consider there are about 600 recognized indian (feather not dot) tribes in the US, half as many in Canada. Each with their own ‘tribal’ name for each bird. And of course the messicans, even though they’re not ‘north america’ will want their names too, in the spirit of ‘equity’. This is the part race-pimps and cultural rapists didn’t stop to think about before they opened their mouths to trash English names for animals in an English-speaking nation.
Sooooooooooooooooooooo, how many bird books out there are going to have to be changed?
That is the beauty of books, they are very difficult to change, unlike the internet.
“Cussing? TITS isn’t cussing in the bird name thread.“
You’re right. I guess I need a lesson on the birds and the bees.
Nuthatches are everywhere.
Did James Bond’s namesake ever name some boring bird after Ian Flemming?
“The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies.”
“Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond’s guide and he later explained to the ornithologist’s wife that “It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born”.[17]”
“When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962[18]”
“On another occasion Fleming said: “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers’. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.”[19] After Fleming met the ornithologist and his wife, he described them as “a charming couple who are amused by the whole joke”.[20] In the first draft of Casino Royale he decided to use the name James Secretan as Bond’s cover name while on missions.[21]”
Reportedly, Fleming modeled the Bond character after a wartime triple agent who was codenamed Tricycle.
Does the name 'praying mantis' offend atheists? Is the 'brown recluse' a dog whistle slamming Mexicans and 'people of color'?
All the drama - all the stupidity, all the self-absorbed bullsh*t we've grown to accept about democrats...
Redbirds, blackbirds, yellow finch,
Bluejay, blue-winged teal, green heron, white dove, brown thrasher, purple martin, indigo bunting, purple starling, scarlet tanager,
Apart from color, “bird-brain” might need addressing.
“Chicken” as used for draft-dodgers and punks who kneel during the National Anthem.
Enough of these race-baiting turkeys.
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