Monosyllabic Bird Thread

[SummerMorning]

My face just did this:

I see that cock is already taken. Grouse.

Ruff.

 

[SummerMorning]

Loon.

 

[SummerMorning]

Shrike

 

[cantdog]

grebe

 

[cantdog]

rook

cantdog

 

[cantdog]

rail...

 

[matriarch]

As Joe's not around yet, took the opportunity to update the list.

auk
chick
cob
coot
crow
dove
duck
goose
grebe
hawk
huff
jay
lark
loon
owl
quail
rail
roc
rook
shag
shrike
snipe
stork
swan
teal
tern
thrush
tit
wren


Updated from the last posts.......adding Cant's 'rail', which came in when I was updating.

 

[cantdog]

I looked, but I dont see

owl

 

[Alex De Kok]

I was going to say Tarn until I remembered it's fictional!

So, chough.

Alex

 

[matriarch]

I looked, but I dont see

owl

It's there Cant.....already in Joe's second updated list on page 2.

As was your 'rook', and 'grebe', and Summermorning's 'loon' and 'shrike'.

 

[matriarch]

My offering:

Crane

 

[cantdog]

Joe's first list omitted Gull, too, but it had been mentioned.

hmmm

 

[cantdog]

daw...

 

[matriarch]

and...........

Knot

The knot is a dumpy, short-legged, stocky wading bird. In winter, It is grey above and white below; in summer the chest, belly and face are brick-red. In flight, it shows a pale rump and a faint wing-stripe. It forms huge flocks in winter which wheel and turn in flight, flashing their pale underwings as they twist and turn. Many knots use UK estuaries as feeding grounds, both on migration and in winter, and therefore the population is vulnerable to any changes such as barrages, sea-level rises and human disturbance. Large numbers of birds visit the UK in winter from their Arctic breeding grounds.

 

[matriarch]

daw...

Huh??????

I hope that's not as in.....jackdaw.......

It don't not appear on my definitive list.

 

[matriarch]

Stint

The little stint is a tiny wading bird with a short straight fine black bill and medium-length black legs. It is brownish-grey above (grey in winter) and it is very white underneath. Autumn birds have two pale stripes or 'braces' down the back. It does not breed in the UK, but is a passage migrant, with most birds being juveniles seen in autumn. It is much scarcer in spring, when small numbers of adults are seen, and a very few birds spend the winter here, most migrating to Africa. Often seen with feeding dunlin.
Where does it live?

 

[matriarch]

Joe's first list omitted Gull, too, but it had been mentioned.

hmmm

You're right. My apologies. Oversight rectified.

auk
chick
chough
cob
coot
crane
crow
dove
duck
goose
grebe
gull
hawk
huff
jay
knot
lark
loon
owl
quail
rail
roc
rook
ruff
shag
shrike
snipe
stint
stork
swan
teal
tern
thrush
tit
wren

 

[matriarch]

Scaup

 

[matriarch]

Serin

 

[matriarch]

Smew....

 

[matriarch]

Twite

OK, stopping now........

 

[Guest]

Chat

(yellow-breasted)

 

[Guest]

Finch

 

[Guest]

Kite.

 

[Alex De Kok]

Serin

Foul! (Fowl?) Two syllables!

Alex