What a name !!

[RnR]

White-browed tit-warbler ... such a beautiful bird but what a name!!

Glad I don't have a name like that LOL.

What weird names have you come across?

 

[ohioboy]

Titmouse

 

[RnR]

Titmouse

Good one Ohioboy ... and such a cute bird too.

 

[horseless carriage]

I've waited seventy years to write this smutty line:
A pair of great tits.

 

[ohioboy]

The State fossil of Ohio is: Isotelus

 

[Sunny]

In Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado," there's a sweet little song called Tit-Willow, about a bird who dies of a broken heart. The song was a big hit and was apparently OK with the Victorians.

 

[hollydolly]

Titmouse

LOL..my friends' last name is Titmouse..

 

[hollydolly]

In Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado," there's a sweet little song called Tit-Willow, about a bird who dies of a broken heart. The song was a big hit and was apparently OK with the Victorians.

It would still be ok now...

 

[hollydolly]

Locally in and around these villages the name Cakebread is very common

 

[Glowworm]

Then there's the Marabou stork which is a scavenger. Unfortunately, Sweden's most popular brand of chocolate bar is also called Marabou

 

[RadishRose]

Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker

a medium-sized woodpecker that breeds in Canada and the northeastern United States.

 

[Glowworm]

The Forty-Spotted Pardalote

 

[chic]

The Lilac Breasted Roller is a beauty.

 

[Pink Biz]

Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler

 

[win231]

When personalized license plates became popular, a company president requested a plate that had the initials of his business, which was the Tustin Institute of Technology. If I recall, the DMV issued the plate, then wanted to take it back & it ended up in court.

 

[Murrmurr]

Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler

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I've been called that myself a few times.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Strange-Tailed Tyrant

 

[Aunt Marg]

Spiny Lumpsucker

 

[Aunt Marg]

Sarcastic Fringehead

 

[Aunt Marg]

Turdus Maximus

 

[Aunt Marg]

Botryotinia ****eliana​

 

[Aunt Marg]

Farm Cock

 

[tbeltrans]

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I've waited seventy years to write this smutty line:
A pair of great tits.

I love it when you talk dirty.

Tony

 

[win231]

I'll bet ya never heard of this one:
Titicaca Water Frog.
https://zooatlanta.org/the-amazing-lake-titicaca-water-frog/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmatobius_culeus

 

[ohioboy]

Never.