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  • Predicted Antwren is a new favorite. How interesting.
    by dwagnerkc
  • Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned
    by fat_cantor
  • or Larry
    by nacozarina
  • Nor the great bustards
    by sorokod
  • At least they had the Dickcissel.
    by fallinghawks
  • The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.
    by krylon
  • The Morepork is named after the sound it makes, you can listen to it here, https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/morepork. OTOH some other birds named after their call like the Hadada sound nothing like it.
    by pseudohadamard
  • Oh never knew the name Bananaquit. We call them "barika hel" (yellow belly) in Papiamentu or Suikerdiefje (lil' sugar thief) in Dutch.
    by Kaliboy
  • My next 100 passwords are sorted.
    by hiyer
  • Inaccessible Island Rail (#6) is my favorite, because none of these words imply anything about what the species is going to be
    by SommaRaikkonen