Time for another blast from the past of bird names, as the last one did seem to entertain :)
This time I've split the names into groups with a theme
For those who missed the last quiz these are all old names for British birds that have fallen out of use, simply list the old name next to the current one
Birds of Prey
Who's a Pretty Boy?
Water Birds
Hope to give the answers Monday evening - unless they're all solved before then ;)
Best regardsNigel
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Great Erne = White tailed eagle
Bald buzzard = Osprey
I think :-)) Mike
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Two Down - thirteen to go :))
Well done
barman58 said: Time for another blast from the past of bird names, as the last one did seem to entertain :) This time I've split the names into groups with a theme For those who missed the last quiz these are all old names for British birds that have fallen out of use, simply list the old name next to the current one Birds of Prey Great Erne = White Tailed Eagle Bald Buzzard = Marsh Harrier Puttock = Buzzard Blue Hawk = Merlin Glead = Red Kite Who's a Pretty Boy? The Planet ????? Silk Tail = Waxwing Golden Thrush = White's Thrush????? Cold Finch = Pied Flycatcher Martinet = Swift Water Birds Reed Wren = Reed Warbler Curwillit = Sanderling Bitter-Bum = Bittern Pool Snipe = Redshank White Nun = Smew Hope to give the answers Monday evening - unless they're all solved before then ;)
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Surely
Golden Trush = Golden Oriole
Maybe
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922)
mpiekp said: Surely Golden Trush = Golden Oriole Maybe
Hi mp
I thought so too, but on the site where I found some of the answers it said golden thrush definitely wasn't a golden oriole.
I'm more than happy to go for golden oriole though. :-)
Woodpecker said: Surely Golden Trush = Golden Oriole Maybe
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I would be glad to accept it too - That's what my source states - Not an Internet site ;)
Just to let you know
All the water birds are correct
Three of the BOPs
and all but one of the pretty boys, with Golden oriole included
barman58 said:I would be glad to accept it too - That's what my source states - Not an Internet site ;)
Hi barman
Sadly, we can only try and find the answers somewhere if we don't have the book. LOL
I found someone with a book, who had set a similar quiz on another site, but the answers were incomplete so far as this quiz was concerned:
http://www.northwalesbirding.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2419
No problem with using the net :) I do it all the time as first thought these days
My post did look a bit admonishing which was not the intent, just meant to say that all the names are taken from a re-print of 18th century Bird book that included such things as the Great Auk as a living species
These names are often local so the same answer could be correct for two birds - though I believe that it's more a case here of two or three old names relating to a single modern one
I never felt admonished LOL
I found all of those I answered either on that thread, or by typing in the 'old name' and seeing what came up. I didn't guess any although I thought golden thrush must be golden oriole.
The others were all easy to find, apart from finding anything called The Planet.