That’s maybe another bird, but I have never seen one, so perhaps they don’t exist. Instead of Pigeon Eating Something Weird, we could say Grosbeak.

Now, we would need to come up with better names than those. Here is a little taxonomy I came up with: Surprisingly Indoors Pigeon Hungry Pigeon Statue Pigeon Pigeon Actively Pooping Pigeon Eating Something Weird. They need to be more minutely classified, to make seeing them more of a thrill. In urban areas, this is going to be one of the only birds you see, along with sparrows. Pigeon: So, I have thought about this a lot. (This joke works better out loud.) What sets roosters apart is that they crow. This is like calling only some people sitters or liars, rather than literally all people. Rooster: These should be called Crowers, not roosters. It’s no weirder than “ostrich”! Xostrich. Don’t change anything else, just tack on the X. We need a good, distinctive bird that starts with X, and I think it should be the ostrich. O has “owl.” O doesn’t need “ostrich.” But you know what letter doesn’t have any good birds? X. “Quail” is doing yeoman work for the letter Q, which would otherwise be forced to lean on “queen” and “quilt.” Now, O is doing just fine. Poor xylophone is exhausted, and X-ray is not much better off. I don’t agree, but I see why the book tried. I once saw a children’s alphabet book trying, without shame, to claim the word “extinct” for the letter X. So, one of the big problems with the alphabet is that we don’t have good, simple words that start with every letter. I tried to think of good examples, but all I came up with was that orioles look like members of the Baltimore Orioles, and that is recursive. I think we should do more naming of birds for looking like people things. Absolutely wild that somebody looked at this bird and said, “This looks like a specific member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy!” and everyone just went with it. Call it Red-Chested Brown Bird.Ĭardinal: I know I just objected to “robin” because it was a person name, but “cardinal” is funny. It is like having one breed of cat named Dave. “Robin” is a person name, and I don’t know how it got mixed in here. Here, in no particular order, are all my thoughts about bird names and suggestions for improving them: But that has not stopped me from forming opinions. If you’re not a pigeon, duck, sparrow or Canada goose, I don’t know what you are. “One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle,’ and the other isn’t.” That is how I am about birds.

They’re getting renamed, and I say, wonderful! Finally, bird names for birds! As long as we are renaming dozens of birds to make them more readily identifiable and ensure no one has to give shout-outs to enslavers or the man responsible for the Trail of Tears when, say, trying to point out an oriole, I have some thoughts to share! Should you listen to me about bird naming? Absolutely not.

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