Purple-headed purplebird...
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White-bellied purple tit
You mean white breasted purple tit.
White titted purple booby
I hate that either of these names could be right.
Fr though that's a cool bird
Bird names are either this or "yellow-boobied titcock" and there's no in-between
Ornithologists should hang out with astronomers. They do the same naming scheme with telescopes. They've named some classics like the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).
Edit: a word
Don't forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
H+M = A?
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.
It's the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you're replying to left out "Aperture" by mistake.
Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST)
Where does the 'A' come from?
The phonetic "faiv"?
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Can't beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded
Not to mention "The Big Bang", and " Spooky Action At a Distance"
Spooky action at a distance is how Einstein called quantum entanglement. That is the official name.
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I WOULD say that Lemmy jokes are on point today, but all the ones I've saved and sent to my family group chat are from the same Picard Maneuver lol
You got a good taste in jokes!
Happy to help! Lol
We’re actually all just alts of The_Picard_Maneuver
Saw this kickass bird at the lake one day. Went home and looked it up.
red-winged blackbird
C'mon!
Field biology professor at my alma matter did a study on red-winged blackbirds where they put black paint over the red spots. The females didn't really care, but the other males would beat the shit out of the test birds.
Animal behavior is funny
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Petition to rename this the black-bodied yellowbird
I believe you mean "Black-Breasted Yellow Tit"
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Ursus Arctos Arctos
Orcinus orca
Pica pica
Chuuuuuuuuu!
Wanna guess?
bubblegum ice cream flavored bird
Pink breasted bluey chirp
Lilac breasted roller
It looks like a jerk, so green-tailed twat or something
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I prefer a more scientific name like Birridious Amadeus Maximus, Master of the Armies of the North, Loyal Servant to the One True Emporer.
This isn't everywhere. In German, many birds have pretty unique names: Amsel, Spatz, Kuckuck, Uhu, Eule and so on.
Those are blackbird, sparrow, cuckoo, eagle owl, owl. The one in the meme is a Gelbkopf-Schwarzstärling ("yellowhead blackstärling")
So, not that different, I'd say.
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"What are we going to call this railway line? It goes from Hammersmith to the City"
“… we’ll call it the Gliecksbaden Line, that should clear up any confusion.”
My favourite example of a straight-to-the-point animal name:
There's a species of turtles. Goofy looking fellas with big heads. So what are they called? Big-headed turtles. OK, but surely the Latin name is sensible? No, it's megacephalum. Totally a band name.
"Hey, this turtle looks kinda like it's got a snake for a neck, what should we call it"
Gotta shout out birdle for all the bird-loving wordle fans out there.
That's really cool! But those hints don't help when I have no idea what order a bird is in 😆
Yeah I usually whip out Wikipedia and try to narrow down the family and genus by looking at the photos.
It's kinda fun if you're ever in the mood to spend 10-20 minutes researching different birds, lol.
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Black vultures, for me.
We have some that hunt through the dumpsters at work when deli does toss-out. I felt rather dumb assuming they had a fancier name.
Pretty neat birds to watch, though. I lost some time while they strutted about, pretty much ignoring my existence once I had tossed all our old bread.
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