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Birds are great

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Some birb names have recently been changed, but it was more about reversing racial stereotypes. The tits and bananaquits got to stay

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- And what about the cocks?
  
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  Nobody wants to block the cocks.
  
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  scientists love dicks
  
  *for lemmy reasons this is a joke
  
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- I thought it was less about racial stereotypes, and more about this big recent push across multiple fields to not have people's names attached to things. Right now (or recently) it's about oviducts v Fallopian tubes or the bulbourethral gland v Cowperis gland in biology, which I'm familiar with. I think there was a post and comment thread about birds specifically in the last few days on Lemmy; same thing with people's names being removed.
  
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  From what I've seen, a lot of the motivation to not have peoples' names attached to things is because people have things attached to them (such as racism). Not saying that's every case, but I'm sure that's a significant factor behind the general push.
  
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- Still calling Kestrels Windfuckers
  
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Blue-footed boobies are the only boobies, I can get behind.

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Permanently Deleted

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I think they name bird like that so bird watching sound more fun to people who doesn't know bird

What are you doing in your spare time?

I usually go to see booby and tit but sometimes dick and cock

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- You're a dodo
  
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- Birdwatching goes both ways
  
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"BananaQuit" sounds like a randomised username in some online game.

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- I am a little disappointed that your user name wasn't Bananaquit. That would have been epic.
  
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not a naughty name, but I wonder what was the scientist who named "Yellow-bellied sapsucker" was going through

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- That one at least makes sense, if they're drinking tree sap and have yellow feathers on their belly
  
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  I mean the other names make sense with additional context
  
  Both Tit- and Cock- as prefixes used to mean small (no laughing in the back, please)
  
  And Hoary means grey-haired or old-looking
  
  edit as I had to look this one up: "Booby" is an ellision of "Bobo" - as in "No seas tan bobo" (Spanish) - meaning "silly, naive, dumb..." as they tend to be quite tame birds
  
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- My favourite is the grey go-away-bird.
  
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  That's just mockingbirds though. Lol
  
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  That's just mockingbirds though. Lol
  
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Tufted titmice are among my favorite birds - and not just because I get to say "tit" in polite company... Also cockatoos and cockatiels.

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- Terrible birds. No tits. And not mice.
  
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  I thought the same about seagulls - dumb bird, you don't live anywhere near the sea... I actually would call them "parking lot gulls"
  
  At least titmice have the decency to be cute!
  
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U want sum fuk?

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- Sure, but beware, I'm a horned screamer
  
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Hornithologists

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Can we please pretty please name a bird officially Haught-Breasted Milph?

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Horny dinosaurs

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Why has noone mentioned the woodpecker?

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- Trauma, mostly.
  
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Permanently Deleted

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This even works across languages. In brazilian portuguese, a chick is called "Pinto" which is also a slang for dick.

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what's wrong with "bananaquit"? what about it is dirty? i'm guessing it's either "banana" or "quit" but i don't see it

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Ackshullllyyyyyy: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209660753/these-american-birds-and-dozens-more-will-be-renamed-to-remove-human-monikers

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Dont for get that bird watchers talk about jizz.

the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements, size and colouration combined with voice, habitat and location.

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