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prettygoodwordWe resume our session with another birb:
wheatear (HWEET-eer, WEET-eer) - n., any of several small flycatchers (genus Oenanthe) of Eurasia and North America, especially those with a white rump, often specifically the northern wheatear (O. oenanthe).
I mean, c'mon -- wheatear. But don't go looking for tufts on its head or for it to perch on waves of grain -- the name is actually an alteration by euphemism from its Middle English name white-arse, including a middle form as whiteears, taken to be a plural form and singularized. There's 32 species, most of which do have the white patch on its arse. Here's a she birb, because I'm tired of featuring da males, this one the northern wheatear:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
wheatear (HWEET-eer, WEET-eer) - n., any of several small flycatchers (genus Oenanthe) of Eurasia and North America, especially those with a white rump, often specifically the northern wheatear (O. oenanthe).
I mean, c'mon -- wheatear. But don't go looking for tufts on its head or for it to perch on waves of grain -- the name is actually an alteration by euphemism from its Middle English name white-arse, including a middle form as whiteears, taken to be a plural form and singularized. There's 32 species, most of which do have the white patch on its arse. Here's a she birb, because I'm tired of featuring da males, this one the northern wheatear:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
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