Re: Burger Kinglets & Nixon's warblers

Tyler Bell (bell@say.acnatsci.org)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:24:00 -0500


Rob Hilton wrote:
> 
> Someone in Pennsylvania last year referred to pigeons as "barn falcons"
> 
> Rob Hilton

I know this isn't a common bird but in North Dakota we heard someone
refer to Black-billed Magpie as a Holstein Fly because of their
propensity to sit on the backs of Holsteins!

Someone else locally refered to Rock Doves as Bridge Falcons.

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