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Birds are great (lemmy.ca)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

not a naughty name, but I wonder what was the scientist who named "Yellow-bellied sapsucker" was going through

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That one at least makes sense, if they're drinking tree sap and have yellow feathers on their belly

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I mean the other names make sense with additional context

    Both Tit- and Cock- as prefixes used to mean small (no laughing in the back, please)

    And Hoary means grey-haired or old-looking

    edit as I had to look this one up: "Booby" is an ellision of "Bobo" - as in "No seas tan bobo" (Spanish) - meaning "silly, naive, dumb..." as they tend to be quite tame birds

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