Very interesting indeed, I never knew or have heard most of that list! Thanks for the information.

Spent a good 15 minutes scrolling through that list. Too many to pick a favourite!

Lynn L said:

Very interesting indeed, I never knew or have heard most of that list! Thanks for the information.

You're welcome.

Reading  through the replies, I think some were suggestions and/or wacky ideas rather than historically used terms, but interesting  nonetheless. But then, the terms we use today will have started out as wacky ideas.....

Thanks so much for doing this! It's so hard to collate this data but it is also a valuable cultural insight.

Rushin_Bushin said:

Thanks so much for doing this! It's so hard to collate this data but it is also a valuable cultural insight.

It was very interesting collating the various nouns, and not just from the UK, but across the globe.

I did limit the listing to UK birds, or it would have been close on endless, with many species having more than one noun, all with the help of a spreadsheet.to list, sort and place in some form of sequence.