My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds. (thread) pic.twitter.com/81Ztls7B2O
— Stu Royall (@stu_bot3000) February 3, 2021
There are about 10,000 known species of birds, so it stands to reason that some of them will end up with less-than-noble names. Yeah, we know about tits and boobies, but that only scratches the surface of weirdly-named birds. Stu Royall has been collecting the most head-scratchingly awful names for birds, which he presents in a Twitter thread.
Excuse me? pic.twitter.com/bvFk5GRh64
— Stu Royall (@stu_bot3000) February 3, 2021
It gets weirder.
If you hate *birdsong* maybe find a different hobby idk pic.twitter.com/k5zMtF9zbe
— Stu Royall (@stu_bot3000) February 4, 2021
And those are just a few of the unflattering bird names Royall shows us. Replies came in with hilarious names for birds, fish, reptiles, and other species. Translations, too, like the Swedish buttdork. Read the whole thread here. -via Digg