Purple-headed purplebird...

Bird names are either this or "yellow-boobied titcock" and there's no in-between

Ornithologists should hang out with astronomers. They do the same naming scheme with telescopes. They've named some classics like the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).

Edit: a word

I WOULD say that Lemmy jokes are on point today, but all the ones I've saved and sent to my family group chat are from the same Picard Maneuver lol
You got a good taste in jokes!

Saw this kickass bird at the lake one day. Went home and looked it up.

red-winged blackbird

C'mon!

Petition to rename this the black-bodied yellowbird

Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

Wanna guess?

I prefer a more scientific name like Birridious Amadeus Maximus, Master of the Armies of the North, Loyal Servant to the One True Emporer.

This isn't everywhere. In German, many birds have pretty unique names: Amsel, Spatz, Kuckuck, Uhu, Eule and so on.

"What are we going to call this railway line? It goes from Hammersmith to the City"

My favourite example of a straight-to-the-point animal name:

There's a species of turtles. Goofy looking fellas with big heads. So what are they called? Big-headed turtles. OK, but surely the Latin name is sensible? No, it's megacephalum. Totally a band name.

Gotta shout out birdle for all the bird-loving wordle fans out there.

Black vultures, for me.

We have some that hunt through the dumpsters at work when deli does toss-out. I felt rather dumb assuming they had a fancier name.

Pretty neat birds to watch, though. I lost some time while they strutted about, pretty much ignoring my existence once I had tossed all our old bread.