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Description
A new winter visitor to our garden feeding station, grey wagtails can be found all year round in the area
The Dutch name makes more sense! I find the language almost as interesting as the birds and animals. I should also look up in my Fauna Britannica the origin of this English name. I also learned on twitter today that the woodcock is called a timberdoodle in the US! Thanks for helping me find iNaturalist.org. Its a great resource and a good place to keep track of sightings. I'm looking forward to your blog on it tomorrow.
I've checked Stefan Buczaki's Fauna Britannica and it states the following other local names;
barley bird (general), barley-seed bird (Yorkshire), dishwasher, dun wagtail (Sussex), gypsy bird, oatseed bird (Yorkshire), water wagtail, winter wagtail (southern England), yellow dishwasher (Somerset), yellow wagtail (Ireland, Somerset, Sussex)
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Comments & Identifications
Languages are strange things...
In Dutch we call this bird not grey, but tall and yellow (Grote gele kwikstaart, Tall yellow wagtail...)
The Dutch name makes more sense! I find the language almost as interesting as the birds and animals. I should also look up in my Fauna Britannica the origin of this English name. I also learned on twitter today that the woodcock is called a timberdoodle in the US! Thanks for helping me find iNaturalist.org. Its a great resource and a good place to keep track of sightings. I'm looking forward to your blog on it tomorrow.
I've checked Stefan Buczaki's Fauna Britannica and it states the following other local names;
barley bird (general), barley-seed bird (Yorkshire), dishwasher, dun wagtail (Sussex), gypsy bird, oatseed bird (Yorkshire), water wagtail, winter wagtail (southern England), yellow dishwasher (Somerset), yellow wagtail (Ireland, Somerset, Sussex)
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